The Mystery of Missing Psychometric Corpus
The Case of the Technological Cart Before the Scientific Horse
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 10927306 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Joel Michell (0000-0002-6827-4783, The University of Sydney, autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 2026 |
| Volumen | 56 |
| Número | 3 |
| Páginas | 274-300 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2026-02-04 |
| Open Access | Sí |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | Philosophy of the Social Sciences (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 0048-3931 • E-ISSN: 1552-7441 |
| Editorial | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/00483931251406107 |
| OpenAlex | W7127654933 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Referencias citadas | 79 |
Psychometrics, the science sustaining psychological test construction and use, has consistently ignored logical criticism of its foundations, even though science as a cognitive enterprise requires criticism. This accumulating corpus of criticisms is generally unacknowledged in histories of the discipline, in textbooks, and in course curricula. Thus, there is a mystery here as to why this critical resource is missing. Considering three critical offerings from before 1950, it is clear that by mid-century, psychometric methods, consistently marketed as instruments of scientific measurement, were bereft of evidence supporting that boast. A solution to this mystery is proposed
Cart · Cognition · Criticism · History of science · Philosophy of science · Psychometrics · Resource (disambiguation) · Test (biology) · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Psychological Testing and Assessment
The Tyranny of Metrics
Hereditary genius
Measuring the Mind
Measurement in Psychology
On the Theory of Scales of Measurement
Theoretical risks and tabular asterisks
Psychometric Experiments
"General Intelligence," Objectively Determined and Measured
Simultaneous conjoint measurement
Item Response Models, Pathological Science and the Shape of Error
“The art of imposing measurement upon the mind”
Thorndike’s Credo
The ambiguous utility of psychometrics for the interpretative foundation of socially relevant avatars
Measurement as a Normative Practice
Normal Science, Pathological Science and Psychometrics
Between Numbers and Notions
Measurement Theory, Psychology and the Revolution That Cannot Happen
“Professor Spearman has drawn over-hasty conclusions”
The Rasch paradox, conjoint measurement, and psychometrics
Archival sources for Sir Godfrey Hilton Thomson
To psychometrics, from thermometry
The fashionable scientific fraud
The Logit Model Measurement Problem
Natural inheritance
Quantitative science and the definition of measurement in psychology
The Factorial Analysis of Human Ability
The fallacy of the null-hypothesis significance test
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