PSYCHOLOGIST

Charles Spearman

1863 - 1945

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Charles Edward Spearman, FRS (10 September 1863 – 17 September 1945) was an English psychologist known for work in statistics, as a pioneer of factor analysis, and for Spearman's rank correlation coefficient. He also did seminal work on models for human intelligence, including his theory that disparate cognitive test scores reflect a single general intelligence factor and coining the term g factor. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Charles Spearman is the 102nd most popular psychologist, the 1,321st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,120th in 2019) and the 7th most popular British Psychologist.

Charles Spearman is most famous for his work on the general intelligence factor, or g. Spearman found that people who are good at one kind of mental activity are good at other kinds of mental activities. He also found that people who are good at one kind of mental activity are good at other kinds of mental activities.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Charles Spearman ranks 102 out of 235Before him are R. D. Laing, Rollo May, Walter Bradford Cannon, Carol Gilligan, Frederick Herzberg, and Rudolf Arnheim. After him are Donald O. Hebb, Adolf Bastian, Muzafer Sherif, Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay, Frans de Waal, and Otto Gross.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1863, Charles Spearman ranks 43Before him are William Randolph Hearst, Hugo Münsterberg, John Charles Fields, Franz von Hipper, Émile Friant, and Archduke Eugen of Austria. After him are Henry Royce, Albert Calmette, Ludwig Borchardt, Andrés Bonifacio, Hermann Bahr, and Mary Jane Kelly. Among people deceased in 1945, Charles Spearman ranks 107Before him are Bernhard Rust, Georg Kaiser, Walter Bradford Cannon, Philipp Bouhler, Eduard Bloch, and Ernst-Robert Grawitz. After him are Anton Dostler, Ivan Chernyakhovsky, Richard Glücks, Takeichi Nishi, Walter Krüger, and Takijirō Ōnishi.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Charles Spearman ranks 1,321 out of 8,785Before him are Jonathan Edwards (1966), Arthur Phillip (1738), Luke Evans (1979), Elias Ashmole (1617), Edward of Middleham, Prince of Wales (1473), and Michael Wilding (1912). After him are John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute (1713), Ian Anderson (1947), James Ferguson (1797), Arnold Toynbee (1852), Rick Parfitt (1948), and Henry (1100).

Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among psychologists born in United Kingdom, Charles Spearman ranks 7Before him are John Bowlby (1907), Donald Winnicott (1896), Raymond Cattell (1905), Edward B. Titchener (1867), Alexander Bain (1818), and R. D. Laing (1927). After him are Havelock Ellis (1859), William McDougall (1871), Frederic Bartlett (1886), Ernest Jones (1879), Brenda Milner (1918), and Ronald Fairbairn (1889).