Linda Gottfredson
| Linda Gottfredson | |
|---|---|
| Born | Linda Susanne Howarth June 24, 1947 San Francisco |
| Citizenship | American |
| Fields | Educational psychology |
| Institutions |
University of Delaware, editorial boards of Intelligence, Learning and Individual Differences, and Society |
| Alma mater | UC Berkeley, Johns Hopkins University |
| Thesis | The relation of situs of work to occupational achievement (1977) |
| Known for | Mainstream Science on Intelligence |
University of Delaware, editorial boards of Intelligence,
Linda Susanne Gottfredson (née Howarth; born June 24, 1947) is a professor emeritus of educational psychology at the University of Delaware and co-director of the Delaware-Johns Hopkins Project for the Study of Intelligence and Society. Gottfredson's work has been influential in shaping U.S. public and private policies regarding affirmative action, hiring quotas, and "Race-norming" on aptitude tests.
She is on the boards of the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences (ISSID), the International Society for Intelligence Research (ISIR), and the editorial boards of the scientific journals Intelligence, Learning and Individual Differences, and Society. Gottfredson has received research grants worth $267,000 from the Pioneer Fund.
Born in San Francisco, she and her first husband Gary Don Gottfredson received bachelor's degrees in psychology in 1969 from University of California, Berkeley, then worked in the Peace Corps in Malaysia until 1972. She also taught in schools for the disadvantaged for a time when she was young. They both went to graduate school at Johns Hopkins University, where she received a Ph.D. in sociology in 1977.
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