Mainstream Science on Intelligence

"Mainstream Science on Intelligence" is a 1994 editorial written by Linda Gottfredson and published in the Wall Street Journal on December 13. It was a list of 25 statements which upheld many of the findings in intelligence research discussed in The Bell Curve. The frequently-cited piece was reprinted in Intelligence in 1997 with additional information on its creation, the response, and a bibliography.

Roughly a third of the 52 signatories, including Gottfredson, have received grants from the Pioneer Fund. The Bell Curve controversy also prompted a report on the field from a task force of the American Psychological Association, titled "Intelligence: Knowns and Unknowns."

Signatories
* = Pioneer Fund recipient


 * Richard D. Arvey*, University of Minnesota
 * Thomas J. Bouchard, Jr.*, University of Minnesota
 * John B. Carroll, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
 * Raymond B. Cattell*, University of Hawaii
 * David B. Cohen, University of Texas at Austin
 * Rene V. Dawis, University of Minnesota
 * Douglas K. Detterman, Case Western Reserve University
 * Marvin Dunnette, University of Minnesota
 * Hans Eysenck*, University of London
 * Jack M. Feldman, Georgia Institute of Technology
 * Edwin A. Fleishman, George Mason University
 * Grover C. Gilmore, Case Western Reserve University
 * Robert A. Gordon*, Johns Hopkins University
 * Linda S. Gottfredson*, University of Delaware
 * Robert L. Greene, Case Western Reserve University
 * Richard J. Haier, University of California at Irvine
 * Garrett Hardin*, University of California at Santa Barbara
 * Robert Hogan, University of Tulsa
 * Joseph M. Horn*, University of Texas at Austin
 * Lloyd G. Humphreys*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
 * John E. Hunter, Michigan State University
 * Seymour W. Itzkoff*, Smith College
 * Douglas N. Jackson, University of Western Ontario
 * James J. Jenkins, University of South Florida
 * Arthur R. Jensen*, University of California at Berkeley
 * Alan S. Kaufman, University of Alabama


 * Nadeen L. Kaufman, California School of Professional Psychology at San Diego
 * Timothy Z. Keith, Alfred University
 * Nadine Lambert, University of California at Berkeley
 * John C. Loehlin, University of Texas at Austin
 * David Lubinski, Iowa State University
 * David T. Lykken*, University of Minnesota
 * Richard Lynn*, University of Ulster at Coleraine
 * Paul E. Meehl, University of Minnesota
 * R. Travis Osborne*, University of Georgia
 * Robert Perloff, University of Pittsburgh
 * Robert Plomin, Institute of Psychiatry, London
 * Cecil R. Reynolds, Texas A & M University
 * David C. Rowe, University of Arizona
 * J. Philippe Rushton*, University of Western Ontario
 * Vincent Sarich, University of California at Berkeley
 * Sandra Scarr, University of Virginia
 * Frank L. Schmidt, University of Iowa
 * Lyle F. Schoenfeldt, Texas A & M University
 * James C. Sharf, George Washington University
 * Herman Spitz, former director E.R. Johnstone Training and Research Center, Bordentown, N.J.
 * Julian C. Stanley, Johns Hopkins University
 * Del Thiessen, University of Texas at Austin
 * Lee A. Thompson, Case Western Reserve University
 * Robert M. Thorndike, Western Washington University
 * Philip Anthony Vernon*, University of Western Ontario
 * Lee Willerman, University of Texas at Austin