Life and Career
Brand went to Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School for Boys, 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, from 1970 to 1997, teaching in personality, psychopathology and philosophical problems and researching in factorial psychology. In the 1980s he served on the United Kingdom's Council for National Academic Awards. His 1996 book The g Factor garnered considerable media attention with its claim that inherited general intelligence was like psychological money. Brand wrote that general intelligence is an important factor in determining life outcomes for those with lower scores. He attributes socio-economic differences among people of African descent to differences in general intelligence.
Brand is a Fellow of the Galton Institute. From 2000 to 2004, Brand was a research consultant to the Woodhill Foundation and its CRACK program based in Baltimore, Maryland, which pays drug-addicted mothers $200 to be sterilized. His recent thinking can be sampled via his reviews at Amazon Books, his articles in American Renaissance and The Occidental Quarterly, his (co-authored) chapter 'Why ignore the g factor?' and his decade-long blog ("IQ & PC"). His defence of Hans Eysenck (in a review of the biography Playing with Fire) was published in the journal Intelligence and at http://bussorah.tripod.com/ulysses.html in 2011.
Brand has three children and has been married to his third wife since 2001.
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