Audrey M. Shuey

Dr. Audrey M. Shuey (1910-1977) was the Chairman of the Department of Psychology at Randolph-Macon Woman’s College. Dr. Shuey took her B.A. at the University of Illinois, her M.A. at Wellesley, and her Ph.D. at Columbia. She 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 demonstrated 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. Dr. Shuey was a Pioneer Fund grantee.

Publications

• Shuey, Audrey M. (1966). The Testing of Negro Intelligence (2nd ed.). New York: Social Science Press.