1923-
Professor, University of California, Berkeley

National Furor Over Black IQ Attainment.

No other scientist researching learning gathered the national headlines or created such controversy as Arthur Jensen. His article setting forth his theory and research on the feasibility of boosting deprived children's intelligence quotients (IQs) appeared in the Harvard Educational Review, a publication that has a limited readership. However, the popular press translated his 123-page article into flat statements of only a few sentences, claiming that Jensen's conclusions were that blacks were intellectually inferior to whites according to IQ tests.

Why Jensen Was Investigating Genetic Factors.

Jensen initiated his study to document whether or not the compensatory programs that the federal government was supporting with millions of dollars were capable of making significant inroads in narrowing the gap between minority and majority pupils. Essentially, Jensen argued that in his research he found that genetic factors...