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Howard Francis Taylor (1939 – March 21, 2023) was an American sociologist and Professor of Sociology Emeritus at Princeton University, where he was formerly the director of the African-American Studies program. He was known for his 1980 book The IQ Game, in which he reanalyzed data from several previous reared-apart twin studies of the heritability of IQ. The book concluded, controversially, that the influence of genes on individual differences in IQ scores was small.

Education and career

Taylor graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Hiram College in 1961 and received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1966. In addition to Princeton University, he has also taught at the Illinois Institute of Technology and Syracuse University. He first joined the faculty at Princeton in 1973.

Awards and positions

Taylor served as president of the Eastern Sociological Society from 1996 to 1997. In 1998, he received the Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award from the American Sociological Association. In 2000, he received the President's Award for Distinguished Teaching from Princeton.

Books

• Balance in Small Groups (Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1970)
• The IQ Game: A Methodological Inquiry into the Heredity-Environment Controversy (Rutgers University Press/Harvester Press, 1980)

References

1. "Taylor, Howard Francis, 1939-". Library of Congress Linked Data Service. Retrieved 2018-08-02.
2. Clack, Julie. "Howard Francis Taylor, foremost early sociological critic of IQ tests, died at 83 last spring and will be remembered in a memorial service Friday". Princeton University. Retrieved 2024-04-25.
3. ^ "Howard F. Taylor Award Statement". American Sociological Association. 2009-06-05. Retrieved 2018-08-02.
4. Segal, Nancy L. (2012-06-18). Born Together—Reared Apart: The Landmark Minnesota Twin Study. Harvard University Press. p. 70. ISBN 9780674065154.
5. ^ "Howard Taylor". Princeton African American Studies. Princeton University. Archived from the original on 2018-09-15. Retrieved 2018-08-02.
6. "Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award". American Sociological Association. 2016-04-22. Retrieved 2018-08-02.

External links

• Faculty page
• Howard F. Taylor Black Leadership Network study papers from Princeton University Library. Special Collections

• 1939 births
• 2023 deaths
• American sociologists
• Princeton University faculty
• Hiram College alumni
• Yale University alumni
• Illinois Institute of Technology faculty
• Syracuse University faculty
• Black studies scholars