Here's my 2002 review in VDARE.com of Intelligence, Race, and Genetics: Conversations with Arthur R. Jensen, in which the brilliant interviewer Frank Miele leads the Berkeley psychologist through an accessible tour of his work.
Here's Jensen's 1982 review, "The Debunking of Scientific Fossils and Straw Persons," of Steven Jay Gould's bestseller The Mismeasure of Man.
Here's the big 2005 paper Jensen co-authored with J.P. Rushton: "Thirty Years of Research on Race Differences in Cognitive Ability."
Any other suggestions for online materials?
Update: Mike Steinberg suggests:
Jensen comes in 47th place in "The 100 Most Eminent Psychologists of the 20th Century" Review of General Psychology, 2002, 6, 139-152.
Review: The Scientific Study of General Intelligence. Tribute to Arthur R. Jensen; H. Nyborg (ed.). Pergamon, London, 2003, pp.642
The Scientific Study of General Intelligence: Tribute to Arthur Jensen edited by Helmuth Nyborg - google books
Gottfredson, L. S. 2003). g, jobs, and life. In H. Nyborg (Ed.), The scientific study of general intelligence: Tribute to Arthur R. Jensen (pp. 293-342). New York: Pergamon.
Gottfredson, L. S. (1998). Jensen, Jensenism, and the sociology of intelligence. Intelligence, 26(3), 291-299.
Chapter 12 entitled Population differences in Intelligence: Causal Hypotheses from the book The g factor: The Science of Mental Ability
You can download the 1998 issue of Intelligence devoted to Jensen's career here. (You'll then need to open the compressed file with an unzipping application.)
Here's the big 2005 paper Jensen co-authored with J.P. Rushton: "Thirty Years of Research on Race Differences in Cognitive Ability."
Any other suggestions for online materials?
Update: Mike Steinberg suggests:
Jensen comes in 47th place in "The 100 Most Eminent Psychologists of the 20th Century" Review of General Psychology, 2002, 6, 139-152.
Review: The Scientific Study of General Intelligence. Tribute to Arthur R. Jensen; H. Nyborg (ed.). Pergamon, London, 2003, pp.642
The Scientific Study of General Intelligence: Tribute to Arthur Jensen edited by Helmuth Nyborg - google books
Gottfredson, L. S. 2003). g, jobs, and life. In H. Nyborg (Ed.), The scientific study of general intelligence: Tribute to Arthur R. Jensen (pp. 293-342). New York: Pergamon.
Gottfredson, L. S. (1998). Jensen, Jensenism, and the sociology of intelligence. Intelligence, 26(3), 291-299.
Chapter 12 entitled Population differences in Intelligence: Causal Hypotheses from the book The g factor: The Science of Mental Ability
You can download the 1998 issue of Intelligence devoted to Jensen's career here. (You'll then need to open the compressed file with an unzipping application.)
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Back in 1998 the peer-reviewed differential psychology journal Intelligence published a special issue dedicated to Arthur R. Jensen and his scientific achievements. You can download the whole thing here:
http://www.mediafire.com/?09gdihyup5d2y0u
B.B.
Dear B.B.:
Thanks. However, the downloadable file comes with an RAR extension, and my Mac doesn't know what to open it with. What application should we use to open this file?
Jensen comes in 47th place in "The 100 Most Eminent Psychologists of the 20th Century" Review of General Psychology, 2002, 6, 139-152.
Review: The Scientific Study of General Intelligence. Tribute to Arthur R. Jensen; H. Nyborg (ed.). Pergamon, London, 2003, pp.642
The Scientific Study of General Intelligence: Tribute to Arthur Jensen edited by Helmuth Nyborg - google books
Gottfredson, L. S. 2003). g, jobs, and life. In H. Nyborg (Ed.), The scientific study of general intelligence: Tribute to Arthur R. Jensen (pp. 293-342). New York: Pergamon.
Gottfredson, L. S. (1998). Jensen, Jensenism, and the sociology of intelligence. Intelligence, 26(3), 291-299.
Chapter 12 entitled Population differences in Intelligence: Causal Hypotheses from the book The g factor: The Science of Mental Ability
Time Magazine had a 1979 article up, but now you need to subscribe to read it all.
http://www.halfsigma.com/2007/11/arthur-jensen-r.html
Jared Taylor has posted his 1992 interview with Jensen and an obituary at American Renaissance.
However, the downloadable file comes with an RAR extension, and my Mac doesn't know what to open it with. What application should we use to open this file?
I use Zipeg.
There's also this interview.
Another interview. There's good stuff there about, for example, his encounters with the, uh, reality-based community. Excerpt:
Probably the most amusing incident occurred at a professional convention in Chicago, where I was scheduled to speak to an audience of some 700 psychologists and educators. Also about 100 self-invited demonstrators from the Progressive Labor Party were planted among the audience.
The protestors created such a noisy disturbance in the auditorium, making it pointless for me to even try to give my prepared address, that the program chairman cancelled my talk. At that instant the demonstrators immediately rushed the stage and fisticuffs broke out among them, as if they were fighting with each other in order to be able to get to me. Then one of these men grabbed me as I was trying to escape and shouted “We’re the tactical squad of the Chicago Police, we’re trying to get you the hell out of here.” In fact, the tactical squad of 9 men and one woman, who were all disguised as demonstrators, had been sitting in the first row with the audience, ready to go into action if the need arose. They hustled the program chairman and me off the platform and into a backstage freight elevator, which took us to the street level where we were quickly shoved into a police car. These policemen directly took us for lunch at an excellent Greek restaurant. They said the treat was ordered with the complements of Mayor Daley, the famous “boss” of Chicago. When the police later returned us to the Palmer House Hotel, I was told that, to avoid any further harassment, I had been moved to another room on a higher floor, and also my name had been changed in the hotel’s registry. “And what is my new name?” I asked the officer. He answered, “William James.”
Steve Sailer said...
Thanks. However, the downloadable file comes with an RAR extension, and my Mac doesn't know what to open it with. What application should we use to open this file?
I'm not familiar with Mac software as I use Windows. Googling 'mac freeware rar' seems to give a number of suggestions. Or if your computer software is already familiar with .zip files, just try this link instead:
http://www.mediafire.com/?uxrlxwbpj4b1qx0
B.B.
Unfortunately only the preview of this 1999 Daily Mail interview is available unless you sign up for the 7 day free trial. The headline and opening parapgrahs sums up the kind of reception Jensen tended to receive:
IS THIS MAN TRULY THE WORLD'S MOST LOATHSOME SCIENTIST? AS THE HIGHLY CONTROVERSIAL PROFESSOR JENSEN ARRIVES IN LONDON.. by Mary Riddell
TODAY, American eugenics professor Arthur Jensen addresses a gathering of academics in London. The Daily Mail does not agree with his views on intelligence indeed, we profoundly disagree with them. However, we feel that open debate is the best way of establishing the truth and that our readers are quite capable of drawing their own conclusions.
FOR three decades, Professor Arthur Jensen has lived in the shadow of death and violence.
It is difficult, however, to feel sorrow for him. In Australia, he was extricated from a baying mob by 100 police officers.
In Germany, warnings were issued that if he were allowed to lecture he might not leave the stage alive.
On his own university campus, at Berkeley, California, he was, at the height of his vilification, protected against those who threatened to kill him by armed bodyguards.
His car tyres were slashed and his door was sprayed with swastikas by his own students, who gathered in the corridor to hiss as he walked by.
This week, to little fanfare, the world's most demonised scientist arrived in London, where he once learned his theories and where he will deliver the keynote address today at a conference devoted to eugenics, or the enhancement of the human race.
To his supporters, Jensen - an Emeritus Professor of Educational Psychology possesses one of the finest scientific minds of our time, worthy of a Nobel Prize. To his countless opponents, of whom President Bill Clinton is one, he is a dabbler in the unthinkable...
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-109704477.html
I only met him once at a professional meeting. He took the time to sit down with me and discuss my student's efforts to replicate a piece of his research. Very approachable and very helpful. I also remember passing his office door at Cal in the mid-80s--- the glass had been replaced by a piece of plywood. With Rushton gone, and now Jensen, I doubt there is anyone left in the university setting who would risk their careers by even postively discussing the IQ gap, let alone conduct research. It will be interesting to see if the research dies with them.
Some might not have heard of Discussions on Genius and Intelligence, which was published in 2002. It's an ebook with Dr. Jensen's answers to 31 questions posed to him by Christopher Langan, Gina LoSasso and members of their Mega Foundation.
Back in the 1990s, when all this for some reason seemed much more important, I used to read Jensen's posts in some online psychology discussion forum. Unfortunately, I can't even remember the name of the group now - "psych-" something, I think. Anybody else remember? Still on the Internet?
This group was interesting because you had Jensen defending his claims against critics in an informal, collegial atmosphere. Of course the discussion was in technical jargon, but that wasn't usually a problem. I don't remember much from reading Jensen's discussions there, except that anthropologists are the stupidest people in the world.
Anyway, if someone could remember the name of that online forum I'd be grateful. Maybe the posts are still online somewhere.
Aaron Gross said...
Back in the 1990s, when all this for some reason seemed much more important, I used to read Jensen's posts in some online psychology discussion forum. Unfortunately, I can't even remember the name of the group now - "psych-" something, I think. Anybody else remember? Still on the Internet?
You might be thinking of Psycoloquy:
http://www.cogsci.ecs.soton.ac.uk/cgi/psyc/ptopic?topic=intelligence-g-factor
B.B.
Psycoloquy, that's it! Thanks, Anonymous, you're great. I think that link should be added to the list. A substantive, collegial, and critical discussion of Jensen's work on IQ and g.
Old photograph of hereditarian researchers. Bottom row, L to R: Mrs. H.J. Eysenck, Hans J. Eysenck, Arthur R. Jensen, Richard Herrnstein, Richard Lynn, Marian Van Court. Top row: Helmuth Nyborg, Linda Gottfredson, Ernst van den Haag, Robert Nichols, Michael Levin, J. Philippe Rushton, Chris Brand.
http://tupian.hudong.com/a1_02_14_01300000091985121351145307247_jpg.html
Wikipedia links to an obituary in the local Lake County Record-Bee
where he had retired.
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/record-bee/obituary.aspx?n=arthur-jensen&pid=160674984#fbLoggedOut
The nine guest book entries include Taylor, Nyborg, Detterman, Gordon. Also Denmark, Prague, Hungary.
http://www.legacy.com/guestbooks/record-bee/guestbook.aspx?n=arthur-jensen&pid=160674984&cid=full
I read The g Factor (very slowly, twice...) and the Miele book, both still on the bookshelf.
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