Truman Lee Kelley Explained

Truman Lee Kelley (1884 – 1961) was an American researcher who made seminal contributions to statistics and psychology.

Life

He was born in Whitehall, Muskegon County, Michigan in 1884.^[1] He died in 1961.^[1]

Career

He received his A.M. degree in psychology from the University of Illinois in 1911,^[1] where he became one of the four founding students of Kappa Delta Pi.^[2] He completed his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1914 under the supervision of Edward Thorndike.^[1] After doing so, he worked as an instructor at the University of Texas and at Teachers College, and then in 1920 became a professor at Stanford University. He moved to Harvard University in 1931, and retired in 1950.

Bibliography

His books include:

• Statistical Method. New York: Macmillan (1923).
• Interpretation of Educational Measurements (1927)^[3]
• Crossroads in the Mind of Man (1928)^[4]
• Scientific Method; Its Function in Research and in Education (1929)
• Tests and Measurements in the Social Sciences (coauthor, 1934)
• Essential Traits of Mental Life (1935)
• The Kelley's Statistical Tables (1938; 2nd ed., 1948)
• Fundamentals of Statistics (1947)

Notes and References

1. Encyclopedia: Kelley, Truman L. . International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences . 2008. Thomson Gale. 12 March 2017.
2. https://www.kdp.org/aboutkdp/founding.php Founding of KDP
3. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.$b239527&seq=5 Full online text
4. calls Crossroads in the Mind of Man "an important landmark in aptitude testing".