Arthur Jensen (1923–2012) had recently published an article on race in the Harvard Educational Review (1969). Jensen was a professor of educational psychology at University of California, Berkeley. In his article, he argued that general intelligence was a simple genetic trait, an absolute measurable quantity referred to as the g factor; that this biological quantity could be measured by IQ tests; that this factor was heritable; that race was a biological reality in humans; that there were real, genetic differences in intelligence among presumed human races; that the intelligence of blacks was
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