- Julian C. Stanley Jr.
Julian C. Stanley Jr. (
July 9 1918 –August 12 2005 ) was an Americanpsychologist best known for his work onpsychometrics .Born in
Macon, Georgia , he graduated fromWest Georgia Junior College (1936) andGeorgia Teachers College (1937), now Georgia Southern University. DuringWorld War II (1942–1945), he served in the chemical warfare service. He later took a job atVanderbilt University . His collaboration with Donald T. Campbell on "Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs for Research" (Campbell & Stanley, 1963, 1966) became his most widely cited publication. In 1965, he became a fellow at theStanford University Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and edited "Improving Experimental Design and Statistical Analysis" (1966).Stanley then went to
Johns Hopkins University , where with support from the newly formed Spencer Foundation, he founded the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth (SMPY). In 1994 he was one of 52 signatories on "Mainstream Science on Intelligence ," an editorial written byLinda Gottfredson and published in the "Wall Street Journal ", which defended the findings onrace and intelligence in "The Bell Curve ". Gottfredson, Linda (December 13, 1994).Mainstream Science on Intelligence . "Wall Street Journal ", p A18.]The
Association for Psychological Science named him as a James McKeen Cattell Fellow in recognition of his sustained and rigorous contributions applied psychological research.References
External links
* [http://cty.jhu.edu/about/stanley.html Julian C. Stanley Jr. profile]
* [http://www.vanderbilt.edu/Peabody/SMPY/StanleyObit2006.pdf Julian C. Stanley Jr. obituary] (PDF )
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