Quinn McNemar explained

Quinn McNemar
Birth Date:February 20, 1900
Birth Place:Greenland, West Virginia, United States
Death Place:Palo Alto, California
Fields:psychology, statistics
Workplaces:Stanford University
University of Texas
Alma Mater:Juniata College
Stanford University
Doctoral Advisor:Lewis Terman
Known For:McNemar's test
Revising the Stanford-Binet IQ test

Quinn Michael McNemar (February 20, 1900 – July 3, 1986)[1] was an American psychologist and statistician. He is known for his work on IQ tests, for his book Psychological Statistics (1949) and for McNemar's test, the statistical test he introduced in 1947.[2] [3]

Life

McNemar was born in Greenland, West Virginia in 1900. He obtained his bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1925 from Juniata College, studied for his doctorate in psychology under Lewis Terman at Stanford University, and joined the faculty at Stanford in 1931. In 1942 he published The Revision of the Stanford–Binet Scale, the IQ test released in 1916 by Terman. By the time he retired from Stanford in 1965 he held professorships in psychology, statistics and education. He taught for another five years at the University of Texas before retiring to Palo Alto, where he died in 1986.[3]

He was president of the Psychometric Society in 1951 and of the American Psychological Association in 1964.[4] [5] [6]

References

  1. Hastorf . A. H. . Hilgard . E. R. . Sears . R. R. . Quinn McNemar (1900–1986) . American Psychologist . 1988 . 43 . 3 . 196–197 . 10.1037/h0091955 .
  2. 10.1007/BF02295996. 12. 2. 153–157. McNemar. Quinn. Note on the sampling error of the difference between correlated proportions or percentages. Psychometrika. 1947-06-18. 20254758. 46226024.
  3. Quinn McNemar, reviser of IQ test. Spring–Summer 1986. Sandstone and Tile. Stanford Historical Society. 10. 3–4. 2009-05-11. 2010-07-05. https://web.archive.org/web/20100705212231/http://histsoc.stanford.edu/pdfST/ST10no3_4.pdf. dead.
  4. Book: A Dictionary of Statistics. Oxford University Press. 2008. Quinn McNemar.
  5. News: Psychologists Honor Scientists at Sub Base . The Courier-Journal . September 3, 1962 . 31 . . March 29, 2020.
  6. Web site: Former APA Presidents . American Psychological Association . March 29, 2020.