Quinn McNemar
BornFebruary 20, 1900
Greenland, West Virginia
DiedJuly 3, 1986(1986-07-03) (aged 86)
Palo Alto, California
CitizenshipUS
Alma materJuniata College
Stanford University
Known forMcNemar's test
Revising the Stanford-Binet IQ test
Scientific career
Fieldspsychology, statistics
InstitutionsStanford University
University of Texas
Doctoral advisorLewis Terman

Quinn Michael McNemar (February 20, 1900 – July 3, 1986)[1] was an American psychologist and statistician. He is known for his work on IQ tests, for his book Psychological Statistics (1949) and for McNemar's test, the statistical test he introduced in 1947.[2][3]

Life

McNemar was born in Greenland, West Virginia in 1900. He obtained his bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1925 from Juniata College, studied for his doctorate in psychology under Lewis Terman at Stanford University, and joined the faculty at Stanford in 1931. In 1942 he published The Revision of the Stanford–Binet Scale, the IQ test released in 1916 by Terman. By the time he retired from Stanford in 1965 he held professorships in psychology, statistics and education. He taught for another five years at the University of Texas before retiring to Palo Alto, where he died in 1986.[3]

He was president of the Psychometric Society in 1951 and of the American Psychological Association in 1964.[4][5][6]

References

  1. ↑ Hastorf, A. H.; Hilgard, E. R.; Sears, R. R. (1988). "Quinn McNemar (1900–1986)". American Psychologist. 43 (3): 196–197. doi:10.1037/h0091955.
  2. ↑ McNemar, Quinn (1947-06-18). "Note on the sampling error of the difference between correlated proportions or percentages". Psychometrika. 12 (2): 153–157. doi:10.1007/BF02295996. PMID 20254758. S2CID 46226024.
  3. 1 2 "Quinn McNemar, reviser of IQ test" (PDF). Sandstone and Tile. Stanford Historical Society. 10 (3–4). Spring–Summer 1986. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-07-05. Retrieved 2009-05-11.
  4. ↑ "Quinn McNemar". A Dictionary of Statistics. Oxford University Press. 2008.
  5. ↑ "Psychologists Honor Scientists at Sub Base". The Courier-Journal. September 3, 1962. p. 31. Retrieved March 29, 2020 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  6. ↑ "Former APA Presidents". American Psychological Association. Retrieved March 29, 2020.
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