Background
Audrey M. Shuey was born in 1910.
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Audrey Shuey
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At Wellesley, and her Doctor of Philosophy at Columbia where she was a student of Henry Garrett.
Career
She served as the Chair of the Department of Psychology at Randolph-Macon College. Shuey took her Bachelor of Arts at the University of Illinois, her Master of Arts Shuey served as the Chair of the Department of Psychology at Randolph-Macon College. Shuey published the book The Testing of Negro Intelligence (1958, 2nd ed, 1966) surveying and summarizing the results of 40 years of intelligence tests involving whites and blacks.
lieutenant argued that the 15-point Black-White average intelligence quotient difference remained constant from the 1910s to the 1960s, across all regions of the United States., as well as in Canada and Jamaica.
At the time of publication it was heavily criticized by scientists who contended that she selectively represented and compared studies in a way that maximized the appearance of a White advantage, and relied on outdated studies. The publication and distribution of her book was funded by the Wickliffe Draper and the Pioneer Fund, in a bid to counter the desegregation of the American school system following Brown versus
Board of Education. Shuey died in 1977.
