Whatever the rights and wrongs of Arthur Jensen's views on intelligence, he cannot be called the father of g, as your headline has it.
That was Charles Spearman (1863-1945), specifically in his paper of 1904 General Intelligence: Objectively Determined and Measured .
John Radford
Emeritus professor of psychology
University of East London
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