Talk:Charles Spearman

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I removed the picture because it was not of Charles Spearman, the British psychologist. abeaujean (talk) 14:29, 25 September 2018 (UTC)

Spearman did not study in Leipzig because of the lax requirements but because the University of Leipzig simply was the best university in psychology at the time. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.78.167.132 (talk) 12:19, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

The following inserted paragraph is almost entirely misleading There was also another co-factor as proposed by Spearman that was special intelligence. The special intelligence was for individuals" who accomplished high success results in the some tests. However, later Spearman introduced group factor that was particular to those correlations that were not a result of factor g or s. His ideas were in 1938 criticized on paper by Louis L. Thurstone a psychologist saying that his experiments show that the correlation of intelligence can be categorized in seven primary categories. These categories were numerical, reasoning, spatial, perceptual, memory, verbal fluency and verbal comprehension. However Raymond B. Cattell in 1963 agreed with the concept theorized by Spearman but put forth his findings about intelligence analyses. His analyses were that intelligence is further subdivided in two divisions known as fluid and crystallized intelligence.[10]

Spearman rarely used the word intlligence. The relationship between general and specific FACTORS is discussed in the quotation above the paragraph. Cattell derived his crystallised and fluid intelligences from factor analyses, not from an examination of the nature of g. More importantly, as Horn (who is usually credited for the Cattell-Horn theory)later pointed out, the terms are entirely misleading. One is not a crystallized version of the other. They are different at birth, have different genetic origins, and predict different things in life.

The paragraph should be deleted.

217.30.113.194 (talk) 08:08, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

death
In my sources there are two different dates of death: september 7 and september 17, the latter in the older sources. A lot of Internet-sources use obviously Wikipedia. Is somebody able, to find out what is correct. Markosch from german Wikipedia--217.253.128.42 21:57, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

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Picture
I removed the picture again. It is still not of Charles Spearman or any man born in 1863. In fact it's almost certainly of "Edmund Robert Spearman, Esq., Assistant Secretary to the Royal Commission for the Paris Universal International Exhibition of 1900" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1901_New_Year_Honours  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:23C7:F61B:A101:4B8D:6A69:BF9E:38D (talk) 16:09, 25 January 2021 (UTC)
 * The picture [[File:Exposition universelle de 1900 - portraits des commissaires généraux-Edmund Robert Spearman.jpg|100px]] has been removed at least 3 times, and has been replaced each time. I agree with the above argument that it is a photo of Edmund Robert Spearman, because the original scan shows it is of "M. Spearman - Commissionaire general adjoint de la Grande-Bretagne" and that was Edmund who was 63 years old in 1900.
 * Actual portraits of Charles Edward Spearman can be found as follows:
 * National Portrait Gallery
 * British Psychological Society
 * Encyclopedia of Psychology (University College, London)
 * Royal Society (in Figure 2, Charles Edward Spearman is seated)
 * where the moustache and ears are different. Unfortunately these photos may be copyrighted.
 * It is interesting that Edmund Robert Spearman appears to be the uncle of Charles Edward Spearman - and  JonH (talk) 03:19, 24 June 2024 (UTC)

Nothing about Spearman's Hypothesis?
Spearman's Hypothesis, which makes some controversial claims about race and intelligence, is not mentioned here at all. 2601:602:8A00:539:7140:D021:7D60:90C7 (talk) 18:02, 27 February 2022 (UTC)