PSYCHOLOGIST

Benjamin Bloom

1913 - 1999

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Benjamin Samuel Bloom (February 21, 1913 – September 13, 1999) was an American educational psychologist who made contributions to the classification of educational objectives and to the theory of mastery learning. He is particularly noted for leading educational psychologists to develop the comprehensive system of describing and assessing educational outcomes in the mid-1950s. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Benjamin Bloom has received more than 589,587 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Benjamin Bloom is the 97th most popular psychologist (down from 87th in 2019), the 1,704th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,310th in 2019) and the 34th most popular American Psychologist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 590k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 59.15

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.70

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.72

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Benjamin Blooms by language

Over the past year Benjamin Bloom has had the most page views in the with 69,695 views, followed by Spanish (19,196), and Italian (10,324). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Italian (164.99%), Catalan (87.17%), and Icelandic (46.95%)

Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Benjamin Bloom ranks 97 out of 235. Before him are Rudolf Arnheim, Muzafer Sherif, Théodule-Armand Ribot, Vladimir Bekhterev, Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay, and Marie-Louise von Franz. After him are Émile Coué, Otto Gross, Clark L. Hull, René Spitz, Charles Spearman, and Harry Stack Sullivan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Benjamin Bloom ranks 72. Before him are Sergey Mikhalkov, Robert Adler, Bruno Pontecorvo, Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Israel Gelfand, and Méret Oppenheim. After him are Yasuo Suzuki, Mark Felt, Paul Grice, Lloyd Bridges, Wolfgang Lüth, and Philip Abelson. Among people deceased in 1999, Benjamin Bloom ranks 50. Before him are Hermine Braunsteiner, Henri, Count of Paris, George C. Scott, Fabrizio De André, Edward Dmytryk, and André Martinet. After him are Barış Manço, João Figueiredo, Alfredo Kraus, Charlotte Perriand, Dirk Bogarde, and Rafael Alberti.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Benjamin Bloom ranks 1,704 out of 20,380. Before him are Janet Jackson (1966), Elisabeth Shue (1963), Don DeLillo (1936), James Earl Ray (1928), Roberta Flack (1937), and Robin Hobb (1952). After him are Joseph Franklin Rutherford (1869), Cardi B (1992), Abigail Adams (1744), Lisa Ann (1972), Sonny Bono (1935), and Michael Biehn (1956).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In United States

Among psychologists born in United States, Benjamin Bloom ranks 34. Before him are G. Stanley Hall (1846), Walter Bradford Cannon (1871), David McClelland (1917), Rollo May (1909), James McKeen Cattell (1860), and Frederick Herzberg (1923). After him are Clark L. Hull (1884), Harry Stack Sullivan (1892), Jon Kabat-Zinn (1944), Robert Cialdini (1945), Robert Sternberg (1949), and Thomas Gordon (1918).

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