PSYCHOLOGIST

Charles Spearman

1863 - 1945

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Charles Edward Spearman, FRS (10 September 1863 – 17 September 1945) was an English psychologist known for work in statistics, as a pioneer of factor analysis, and for Spearman's rank correlation coefficient. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles Spearman has received more than 431,713 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Charles Spearman is the 102nd most popular psychologist (down from 95th in 2019), the 1,120th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,042nd in 2019) and the 5th most popular British Psychologist.

Charles Spearman is most famous for his work on the general intelligence factor, or g. Spearman found that people who are good at one kind of mental activity are good at other kinds of mental activities. He also found that people who are good at one kind of mental activity are good at other kinds of mental activities.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Charles Spearman ranks 102 out of 235Before him are Marie-Louise von Franz, Benjamin Bloom, Émile Coué, Otto Gross, Clark L. Hull, and René Spitz. After him are Harry Stack Sullivan, Michael Balint, Auguste Forel, Jon Kabat-Zinn, R. D. Laing, and Édouard Claparède.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1863, Charles Spearman ranks 45Before him are Abdul Karim, Albert Calmette, Felix Weingartner, Archduke Eugen of Austria, Émile Friant, and Henry Royce. After him are Leopold Berchtold, John Charles Fields, Ludwig Borchardt, Grand Duke George Mikhailovich of Russia, Alexander Siloti, and Manuel Gomes da Costa. Among people deceased in 1945, Charles Spearman ranks 106Before him are Anton Dostler, Walter Krüger, Else Lasker-Schüler, Fritz Klein, Wolfgang Lüth, and Takeichi Nishi. After him are Helmuth James von Moltke, Franz Hössler, Matthias Kleinheisterkamp, Werner Ostendorff, Lord Alfred Douglas, and Richard Glücks.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Charles Spearman ranks 1,120 out of 8,785Before him are Frederic Leighton (1830), Sydney Chaplin (1885), Colin McRae (1968), Hugh Griffith (1912), Henry Royce (1863), and Joseph Wright of Derby (1734). After him are Samuel Bellamy (1689), Bob Paisley (1919), Johannes de Sacrobosco (1195), Taron Egerton (1989), Elizabeth Siddal (1829), and Flinders Petrie (1853).

Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among psychologists born in United Kingdom, Charles Spearman ranks 5Before him are Donald Winnicott (1896), John Bowlby (1907), Raymond Cattell (1905), and Edward B. Titchener (1867). After him are R. D. Laing (1927), William McDougall (1871), Frederic Bartlett (1886), Havelock Ellis (1859), Alexander Bain (1818), Ernest Jones (1879), and Brenda Milner (1918).