Lloyd Girton Humphreys was an American differential psychologist and methodologist who focused on assessing individual differences in human behavior.
10 Facts About Lloyd Humphreys
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Lloyd Humphreys's work is among the most widely cited in intelligence research, and he received awards in this field.
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Lloyd Humphreys was a Carnegie Fellow in Anthropology during that time, then taught at the University of Washington and Stanford.
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Lloyd Humphreys then took a post as Research Director, Personnel Laboratory, for the United States Air Force.
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Lloyd Humphreys then spent the remainder of his career at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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Lloyd Humphreys argued that much psychological research fails to replicate because of inadequate sample sizes, because correlations fluctuate when Ns are small.
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Lloyd Humphreys coined the concept "inadequate learning syndrome" and argued it was a more important social problem than the AIDS epidemic.
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Amid the controversy generated by publication of The Bell Curve in 1994, Lloyd Humphreys wrote a target article, which stimulated a series of comments by a number of prominent scholars in the field.
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Lloyd Humphreys generated further controversy by accepting funding from the Pioneer Fund.
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Lloyd Humphreys was one of 52 signatories on "Mainstream Science on Intelligence," an editorial written by Linda Gottfredson and published in the Wall Street Journal, which defended the findings on intelligence in The Bell Curve.