Editing Arthur Jensen (section)

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After psychologist [[Paul E. Meehl]] was honored by the APA in 1998, he wrote in the journal ''Psychological Reports'' that Jensen's "contributions, in both quality and quantity, certainly excelled mine" and that he was "embarrassed" that APA had not also honored Jensen, which Meehl claimed was due to [[political correctness]].<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Meehl|first1=Paul E.|title=Psychology of the Scientist: LXXVIII. Relevance of a Scientist's Ideology in communal Recognition of Scientific Merit |journal=Psychological Reports |year=1998 |volume=83 |issue=3 Suppl |pages=1123–44 |doi=10.2466/pr0.1998.83.3f.1123 |s2cid=144880914 |quote=There was one name conspicuously missing from the list, someone whose contributions, in both quality and quantity, certainly excelled mine, namely, Arthur Jensen. At least a third, and arguably the majority, of the recipients would have to say that about themselves in relation to Jensen. No informed rational mind can have the slightest doubt as to the explanation of this distressing social phenomenon: Arthur Jensen's facts are unpleasant to face, and his theoretical inferences from the facts are politically incorrect.}}</ref>

Psychologist [[Sandra Scarr]] wrote in the journal ''Intelligence'' in 1998 that Jensen possessed an "uncompromising personal integrity" and set the standard for "honest psychological science". She described his critics as "politically driven liars, who distort scientific facts in a misguided and condescending effort to protect an impossible myth about human equality".<ref name="scarr">{{cite journal |doi=10.1016/S0160-2896(99)80005-1 |title=On Arthur Jensen's integrity |journal=Intelligence |volume=26 |issue=3 |pages=227–232 |year=1998 |last1=Scarr |first1=Sandra }}</ref>

Steven J. Haggbloom, writing for ''[[Review of General Psychology]]'' in 2002, rated Jensen as one of the 100 most eminent psychologists of the 20th century, based on six different metrics chosen by Haggbloom.<ref>{{cite journal | last1=Haggbloom | first1=Steven J. | last2=Warnick | first2=Renee | last3=Warnick | first3=Jason E. | last4=Jones | first4=Vinessa K. | last5=Yarbrough | first5=Gary L. | last6=Russell | first6=Tenea M. | last7=Borecky | first7=Chris M. | last8=McGahhey | first8=Reagan | last9=Powell | first9=John L. | last10=Beavers | first10=Jamie | last11=Monte | first11=Emmanuelle | title=The 100 Most Eminent Psychologists of the 20th Century | journal=Review of General Psychology | publisher=SAGE Publications | volume=6 | issue=2 | year=2002 | issn=1089-2680 | doi=10.1037/1089-2680.6.2.139 | pages=139–152 | s2cid=145668721 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228079436| citeseerx=10.1.1.586.1913 }}</ref>

In 1980 Jensen published a book in defense of the tests used to measure mental abilities, titled ''[[Bias in Mental Testing]]''. Reviewing this book, psychologist [[Kenneth Kaye]] endorsed Jensen's distinction between bias and discrimination, saying that he found many of Jensen's opponents to be more politically biased than Jensen was.<ref>K. Kaye, ''The Sciences'', January 1981, pp. 26-28.</ref>