Remembering Arthur Jensen
(August 24, 1923–October 22, 2012)
Greg Johnson
Today is the 100th birthday of Arthur Jensen, professor of educational psychology at the University of California, Berkeley and one of the great pioneers in the science of human biological diversity. The author of over 400 refereed scientific journal articles, and a board member of the journals Intelligence and Personality and Individual Differences, Jensen was known for his work in psychometrics and the psychology of behavior differences. He was a major proponent of genetic determinism in the “nature vs. nurture” debate, arguing that differences in IQ were 80% heredity, and 20% other factors. Jensen also defended the existence of racial differences in IQ, arguing that egalitarian racial uplift programs were doomed to fail because of unalterable biological traits. Because of his positions, Jensen became the focus of thuggish Left-wing attempts to disrupt his classes and research.
Jensen’s magnum opus is The g Factor: The Science of Mental Ability (Greenwood, Connecticut: Praeger, 1998).
To learn more about Jensen’s life and work, I recommend Marian Van Court’s five-part audio interview:
I also recommend Van Court’s three-part memoir:
The following works on Counter-Currents also make substantial reference to Jensen:
- “American Renaissance 2013 and the New Mantra.” (podcast)
- Andrew Hamilton, “Population Geneticist L. L. Cavalli-Sforza and Academic Conformity in Science.” (French version here)
- Michael J. Polignano, “Mike vs. Emory.”
- Spencer J. Quinn, “On the Importance of IQ, Part 2.”
- Spencer J. Quinn, “Daniel Kevles’ In the Name of Eugenics.”
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3 comments
Thanks for writing this Greg. AJ is certainly one of the giants in our movement.
Did he ever speak at an AMREN conference? I don’t think he did but maybe I am wrong. If not, why not? I am sure Jared would have loved to have him speak.
I don’t think so. In the coming weeks we will be publishing transcripts of the interviews Jensen gave to Marian van Court.
Dear Greg Johnson,
Thank you for remembering the life of Arthur Jensen. He was the authority figure on psychometrics. He single handedly resurrected the discipline from obscurity.
Here is list of psychologists that should be added to the birthday list: David C. Rowe, Glayde D. Whitney, Doreen Kimura, Margo Wilson and Sandra W. Scarr.
Here are three anthropologists: Edward T. Hall, Napoleon A. Chagnon and Samuel George Morton.
Keep up the hard work. I visit your webzine everyday.
-Eric
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