4 thoughts on “Ten statisticians every psychologist should know about

  1. Nice. In my intro class I take the time to mention some of the pioneers in the field, Gauss, Pearson, Fisher, Gosset, etc. The students seem to appreciate the anecdotes, although I have to tell them that no, the fact that Pearson changed his first name to be like Karl Marx is not going to be on the midterm.

  2. And where is CS Peirce?

    Who shredded Pearson's Grammar of Science, described a physical means of drawing random samples in the late 1800's, was cited by Ramsey (and Kenynes?) as being key in their early work on foundations of probability and inductive logic, credited with developing a philosophical justification for Neyman-Pearson Confidence Intervals by Ian Hacking, was credited with developing Fisher's randomization test by Steven Stigler [ though Don Rubin contests this until he gets specific references ] … perhaps excluded because Peirce was a colleague of William James [and died pennyless in 1914]

    Oh well nice to see an applied statistician like Rob Tibshirani making the list though

    Keith O'Rourke

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