Frank C. J. McGurk (1910–1995[1]) was an American psychologist who was noted for his claims about race and intelligence.
[2] McGurk's unpublished 1951 doctoral dissertation was cited by Arthur Jensen in Bias in Mental Testing.
"[3] In their review of the book, Darlington and Boyce obtained the unpublished dissertation and concluded that Jensen's summary was itself very biased.
"[5] In the debates that followed the Brown vs. Board of Education decision which ended segregation of the American public school system, McGurk claimed in U.S. News & World Report "that Negroes have less capacity for education than whites",[6] thereby provoking numerous counter-arguments.
[7][8][9][10] In 1959 McGurk told Wesley C. George that, "for the past three years, Villanova has censored me stiffly.