Audrey Mary Shuey (1900–1977) was an American psychologist and writer. She served as the Chair of the Department of Psychology at Randolph-Macon Women's College.

Early life

Audrey M. Shuey was born in 1900. Shuey took her B.A. at the

University of Illinois The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC, U of I, Illinois, or University of Illinois) is a public university, public land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area, Illinois, United ...

, her M.A. at

Wellesley College Wellesley College is a Private university, private Women's colleges in the United States, historically women's Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Wellesley, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1870 by Henr ...

, and her Ph.D. at

Columbia University Columbia University in the City of New York, commonly referred to as Columbia University, is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Churc ...

where she was a student of Henry Garrett. *

Career

Shuey served as the Chair of the Department of Psychology at Randolph-Macon Woman's 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. It argued that race is a biological reality, not a social construct, emphasizing that the 15-point Black-White average IQ difference remained constant from the 1910s to the 1960s, across all regions of the U.S., as well as in Canada and Jamaica. The publication and distribution of her book was funded by

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and the

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, which is an institution connected to fascists, in a bid to counter the desegregation of the American school system following Brown vs. Board of Education.

Reception

The scholar Graham Richards noted that Shuey's text relied on unpublished material like masters and doctoral theses, many of which originated in the Deep South, that some pre-1940s material that she used contained methodological flaws, and that she overstated the consistency of her sources. Shuey was also accused of ignoring many other studies which refuted the studies used in her book. The psychologist

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praised Shuey's work in 1971.

Death

Shuey died in 1977.

References

Publications

*Shuey, Audrey M. (1966). The Testing of Negro Intelligence (2nd ed.). New York: Social Science Press. {{DEFAULTSORT:Shuey, Audrey M. 1910 births 1977 deaths American psychology writers American women psychologists 20th-century American psychologists 20th-century American women writers Columbia University alumni American intelligence researchers People involved in race and intelligence controversies Randolph College faculty University of Illinois alumni Wellesley College alumni 20th-century American women academics