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Linda Susanne Gottfredson (born 24 June 1947 ) is an American Sociologist who publishes on Intelligence , Race , and Human Resources . Her work has been influential in shaping U.S. public and private policies regarding Affirmative Action , hiring quotas, and “race-norming” on aptitude tests. 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 . They both then went to graduate school at Johns Hopkins , where she received a Ph.D. in sociology in 1977 . She then took a position at Hopkins’ Center for Social Organization of Schools and investigated issues of occupational segregation and typology based on skill sets and intellectual capacity. In 1985 , Gottfredson participated in a conference called "The g Factor in Employment Testing." The papers presented were later published in the December 1986 issue of the ''Journal of Vocational Behavior'', edited by Gottfredson. In 1986 , Gottfredson was appointed Associate Professor of Educational Studies at the University Of Delaware , Newark. That year, she presented a series of papers on General Intelligence Factor and employment. In 1988 Gottfredson received the first of many grants from the Pioneer Fund for work on educational differences and occupational policy. In 1989 , University of Delaware's promotion and tenure committee denied Gottfredson promotion to full professor, citing "flawed" and "unscholarly" research. She was promoted to full professor the next year. Gottfredson's research and views have stirred considerable controversy, especially her testimony on public affirmative action policy and her defense of '' The Bell Curve .'' Since that time she has written a number of articles on Race And Intelligence , especially as it applies to occupational qualification. EXTERNAL LINKS
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