PREDICTING CONCLUSIONS OF NEGRO-WHITE INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH FROM BIOGRAPHICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF INVESTIGATOR

QUESTIONNAIRE DATA WERE GATHERED FROM 82 INVESTIGATORS WHO HAD PUBLISHED COMPARATIVE STUDIES OF NEGRO AND WHITE INTELLIGENCE. THE SAMPLE REPRESENTED 64% OF THE POPULATION OF RESEARCHERS. 7 BIOGRAPHICAL ITEMS DISCRIMINATED BETWEEN 6 CATEGORIES OF CONCLUSIONS DRAWN FROM RESEARCH ON RACIAL INTELLIGENCE (R = .45) INCLUDING THAT THERE ARE NO DIFFERENCES BETWEEN NEGROES AND WHITES IN INTELLIGENCE; DIFFERENCES ARE DUE TO ENVIRONMENT; DIFFERENCES ARE DUE TO INNATE INFERIORITY OF NEGROES. THE 7 BIOGRAPHICAL VARIABLES WERE: AGE WHEN RESEARCH WAS PUBLISHED, BIRTH ORDER, WHETHER GRANDPARENTS WERE AMERICAN OR FOREIGN-BORN, MOTHER'S AND FATHER'S EDUCATIONAL LEVEL, CHILDHOOD IN RURAL OR URBAN COMMUNITY, AND UNDERGRADUATE SCHOLASTIC STANDING. (23 REF.) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved). © 1968 American Psychological Association.