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Christopher Richard Brand (born in Preston, England, 1 June 1943) is an English psychological and psychometric researcher who gained media attention for his controversial statements on race and intelligence and pedophilia. He went to Queen Elizabeth's, Barnet, and is a graduate of The Queen's College, Oxford, and a 1968-70 Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford. He was a Lecturer at Edinburgh University, 1970-96/7 (teaching in personality, psychopathology and philosophical problems and researching in factorial psychology). In the 1980s he served on the UK's Council for National Academic... MORE

Christopher Richard Brand (born in Preston, England, 1 June 1943) is an English psychological and psychometric researcher who gained media attention for his controversial statements on race and intelligence and pedophilia. He went to Queen Elizabeth's, Barnet, and is a graduate of The Queen's College, Oxford, and a 1968-70 Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford. He was a Lecturer at Edinburgh University, 1970-96/7 (teaching in personality, psychopathology and philosophical problems and researching in factorial psychology). In the 1980s he served on the UK's Council for National Academic Awards. His 1996 book 'The g Factor' made him celebrated/controversial, with its claim that inherited general intelligence was like psychological money -- and thus specially important to determining life outcomes in the lower-g ranges and yielding Black - White/Asian socio-economic differences. He is a Fellow of the Galton Institute. He has three children and was into the tenth year of his third marriage in 2011. Brand is a proponent of IQ testing and the general intelligence factor and was "a major influence in the spread of influence of inspection time as a theoretically interesting correlate of LESS