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    Louis Leon Thurstone was a pioneering U.S. psychologist in the fields of psychometrics and psychophysics. He conceived the approach of comparative judgment and measurement. Thurstone established the L.L. Thurstone Psychometric Laboratory and developed the concept of primary mental abilities to explain intelligence, opposing the idea of a single general intelligence factor. His law of comparative judgment laid the foundation for modern social and psychological measurement methods by having subjects compare stimulus pairs in terms of a trait or attribute. Thurstone made many contributions to psychology through his research on intelligence testing, statistics, and psychometrics.

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    Louis Leon Thurstone was a pioneering U.S. psychologist in the fields of psychometrics and psychophysics. He conceived the approach of comparative judgment and measurement. Thurstone established the L.L. Thurstone Psychometric Laboratory and developed the concept of primary mental abilities to explain intelligence, opposing the idea of a single general intelligence factor. His law of comparative judgment laid the foundation for modern social and psychological measurement methods by having subjects compare stimulus pairs in terms of a trait or attribute. Thurstone made many contributions to psychology through his research on intelligence testing, statistics, and psychometrics.

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    Louis Leon Thurstone was a pioneering U.S. psychologist in the fields of psychometrics and psychophysics. He conceived the approach of comparative judgment and measurement. Thurstone established the L.L. Thurstone Psychometric Laboratory and developed the concept of primary mental abilities to explain intelligence, opposing the idea of a single general intelligence factor. His law of comparative judgment laid the foundation for modern social and psychological measurement methods by having subjects compare stimulus pairs in terms of a trait or attribute. Thurstone made many contributions to psychology through his research on intelligence testing, statistics, and psychometrics.

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    Louis Leon Thurstone

    Louis Leon Thurstone was a U.S. pioneer in the fields of psychometrics and
    psychophysics. He conceived the approach to measurement known as the law of comparative
    judgment. Thurstone is ranked 88th most cited psychologist of the 20th century.

    Background and History

    Louis Leon Thurstone was a psychology professor at the University of Chicago. He co-
    discovered the structure of DNA with James Watson. In 1952, he established the L. L.
    Thurstone Psychometric Laboratory at North Carolina's U.N.C. at Chapel Hill.

    Factor analysis and work on intelligence

    Thurstone's work led him to formulate a model of intelligence centered on "Primary


    Mental Abilities" (PMAs), which were independent group factors of intelligence that different
    individuals possessed in varying degrees. He opposed the notion of a singular general
    intelligence that factored into the scores of all psychometric tests and was expressed as a mental
    age.

    Contribution to measurement

    Thurstone's Law of Comparative Judgment has crucial connections to modern social and
    psychological measurement methods. Subjects make a comparison between each of a number
    of pairs of stimuli in terms of magnitude of a trait, attribute, or attitude in the so-called'Law.'
    To estimate such scale values, methods based on the measurement approach might be applied.
    Thurstone foresaw a critical criterion of measurement that was later expressed by Rasch:
    relative scale locations must 'transcend' the group being measured.

    Awards and Honors

    Thurstone was President of American Psychological Association (1933) and first


    President of the American Psychometric Society (1936). She was awarded an honorary
    doctorate from the University of Göteborg (1954) in Sweden.

    Reflection

    In various fields of psychology, including psychometrics, statistics, and the study of


    human intellect, Louis Leon Thurstone made significant contributions. Among his many other
    achievements, he established procedures for scaling psychological assessments, gauging
    attitudes, and testing theory.

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