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Right, Spearman came up with the concept of a general factor of intelligence in 1904. But how lauded is Spearman?

Arthur Jensen argued in his 1998 book "The g Factor" that Spearman's general factor theory was the greatest social science idea of the 20th Century. But it took Jensen years to find a publisher for that book.

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