Linda Gottfredson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Linda Gottfredson

American psychologist & scholar

Date of Birth: 24-Jun-1947

Place of Birth: San Francisco, California, United States

Profession: psychologist, university teacher, sociologist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Linda Susanne Gottfredson (née Howarth; born June 24, 1947) is an American psychologist and writer.
She is 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, an organization which has been described as racist and white supremacist.
The University of Delaware unsuccessfully sought to block Gottfredson from receiving Pioneer Fund grants before reaching a legal settlement with her in 1992.