Charles Spearman, 1863-1945
@article{Thomson1947CharlesS1,
title={Charles Spearman, 1863-1945},
author={Godfrey H. Thomson},
journal={Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society},
year={1947},
volume={5},
pages={373 - 385}
}Charles Spearman was born in London on 10 September 1863, and died there on 17 September 1945. He was survived by Mrs Spearman and their daughters; But their only son was killed in Crete in 1941. Even in his schooldays, he has told us, he was ambitious to follow an academic career. But, yielding to ‘the mouthful delusion that life is long’, he tried first a spell in the army as a regular officer of Engineers, went through the Burma campaign of that time, and then, mourning the lost years and…
7 Citations
Spearman, Charles (1863–1945)
- Psychology
- 2015
Charles Edward Spearman (1863–1945) was arguably the leading psychometrician of the early twentieth century. He was the founder and head of the “London school” of psychology at University College…
A conversation between Charles Spearman, Godfrey Thomson, and Edward L. Thorndike: The International Examinations Inquiry Meetings 1931-1938.
- Education
- 2008
Even within "an appreciation of the fundamentally social nature of scientific activity" (K. Danziger, 1990, p. 3), it is unusual to read what key scientists actually said to each other, directly or…
Sir Godfrey Thomson: a statistical pioneer
- History
- 2009
Summary. Godfrey Thomson (1881–1955) was a leading figure in intelligence testing who made his name in that field first at Armstrong College, Newcastle, and then at the University of Edinburgh. In…
Getting Spearman off the Skyhook: One More in a Century (Since Thomson, 1916) of Attempts to Vanquish g
- PsychologyPsychological inquiry
- 2016
This response to Process Overlap Theory provides seven responses to Kovacs and Conway's wide-ranging theory of intelligence differences and suggests that the positive manifold might be a formative biological latent trait while probably being a reflective psychological one.
A History of Mental Ability Tests and Theories
- Psychology
- 2016
The concepts of measurement and theory have always been central to psychological science. This chapter reviews the history of applied mental tests and the ideas behind them, with a specific emphasis…
An Academic Genealogy of Psychometric Society Presidents
- PsychologyPsychometrika
- 2019
The genealogy of presidents of the Psychometric Society is presented by constructing a genealogical tree, in which Ph.D. students are encoded as descendants of their advisors, and shows that most of the presidents belong to five distinct lineages.
References
SHOWING 1-10 OF 38 REFERENCES
German Congress of Experimental Psychology
- PsychologyNature
- 1906
THE second congress of the German Society for Experimental Psychology took place on April 18–21 in the picturesque old town of Würzburg, partly at the old university and partly at the well-known…
The General Factor in Spearman's Theory of Intelligence.
- MathematicsNature
- 1931
SPEARMAN'S theory may be summarised as follows : (1) A mathematical theorem, that when all the tetrad differences such as (rabrcd − racrbd) formed from N variables a, b, c, d, … vanish, each variable…
Correlation between arrays in a table of correlations
- Psychology
- 1922
Two recent papers in these Proceedings have dealt with certain problems of probability which are of very great importance for psychology in particular, but in themselves are quite general. As both…
ANALYSIS OF ABILITIES INTO FACTORS BY THE METHOD OF LEAST SQUARES
- Psychology
- 1934
Resume.
L'ANALYSE EN FACTEURS DES APTITUDES PAR LA METHODE DES PLUS PETITS CARRES.
Dans les sciences naturelles on se sert beaucoup du principe que le systeme le plus probable des valeurs…
Agreement on cooperation.
- Computer Science
- 1925
Present agreement is aimed to facilitate the enrichment of the collections maintained by the Provider and the holder of publication rights (further referred t o as Publisher).