# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/linda-gottfredson
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:39:19.296Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/linda-gottfredson"
name: "Linda Gottfredson"
slug: "linda-gottfredson"
description: "Linda Susanne Gottfredson is an American psychologist and writer. She is professor emerita of educational psychology at the University of Delaware and co-director of the Delaware-Johns Hopkins Project for the Study of Intelligence and Society. She is best known for writing the 1994 letter \"Mainstream Science on Intelligence\", which was published in the Wall Street Journal in defense of Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray's controversial book The Bell Curve (1994)."
tagline: "American psychologist"
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country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1947-06-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump