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Herman George Canady

Herman George Canady

Herman George Canady (Oct 9, 1901 - Dec 1, 1970). A social psychologist. Canady, who was Black, was the 1st psychologist to examine the role of the race of the examiner as a bias factor in IQ testing finding that subjects scored on the average six points higher when tested by a person of the same race.

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