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Smarter is better.(Science And Environment)(Book Review)
Smarter Is Better Linda Gottfredson, "Schools and the 'g' Factor," Wilson Quarterly, Summer 2004 (wilsonquarterly.com)
Under the influence of the nation's egalitarian, meritocratic ethos, many Americans refuse to believe that intelligence exists in any way that can easily be measured. University of Delaware professor Linda Gottfredson, one of the country's more controversial academics, argues otherwise. Indeed, she contends, understanding "g"--the general mental ability factor--is the key to improving education in the U.S.
The variable known as "g" arose when scientists studying intelligence noticed that people who did well on one set of mental tests tended to do well on all of them. For the most part, Gottfredson finds, efforts to increase "g" have not proven successful: The factor appears to be at least partly genetic and largely influenced by events very early in a person's life. While the development of "g" is very complex, it appears to have a great deal of influence over outcomes involving everything from professional success to life expectancy.
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...open to everyone in the Cornell community. Guest lecturers include Yale psychologist Robert Sternberg, University of Delaware sociologist Linda Gottfredson, a radical racial conservative who has received research grants from the ultra right...
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...started out with either low or high fluid intelligence scores profited similarly from frequent, daily training. Sociologist Linda Gottfredson of the University of Delaware in Newark says the new results are "intriguing, but it's premature to call them landmark...
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...Philippe Rushton of the University of Western Ontario, Robert Gordon of the University of Maryland, Michael Levin of CCNY, Linda Gottfredson of the University of Delaware, Garrett Hardin of the University of California at Santa Barbara, R. Travis Osborne of...
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...without reservation by LTD's president and endorsed by its board of trustees. In consequence, the highly regarded work of Linda Gottfredson, the only UD professor to receive Pioneer Fund grants, is in jeopardy. And quite rightly too: for her studies examine...
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- Magazine article from: Human Resource Planning Montgomery, Katherine June 1, 1993 700+ words
...s concluding chapters help the reader reflect on the challenges in the change process of working through diversity. Linda Gottfredson draws from the experiences presented in the case studies to highlight dilemmas organizations face in developing diversity...
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...Philippe Rushton of the University of Western Ontario, Robert Gordon of the University of Maryland, Michael Levin of CCNY, Linda Gottfredson of the University of Delaware, Garrett Hardin of the University of California at Santa Barbara, R. Travis Osborne of...
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- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Anthony Flint, Globe Staff January 3, 1996 700+ words
...Handlin. Next is everything you would ever need to know about intelligence and the way we struggle to measure it, by Linda Gottfredson. Last, there's a nice snapshot of the crazy world of making movies today by independent producer Barbara Maltby, who...
