Linda Gottfredson Scientist

Linda Susanne Gottfredson (née Howarth; born June 24, 1947) is a professor 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.

Personal facts

Birth date	June 24, 1947
Birth name	Linda Susanne Howarth
Birth place	San Francisco
Education	Johns Hopkins University University of California Berkeley
Known for	Mainstream Science on Intelligence