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John Gray Peatman was born on March 16, 1904 in Centerville, Iowa, United States. He was the son of Clarence Albert and Binney Oriel (Gray) Peatman.
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Excerpt from A Study of Factors Measured by the Thorndike Intelligence Examination for High School Graduates In his well-known two-factor theory Spearman (26) has maintained that cognitive (roughly, intellectual) functions have in common a general factor, which he characterizes as g. The fact that positive correlations are usually obtained be tween measurements of mental abilities is attributed by him to this common factor. However, these correlations are never equal to because, in addition. To errors of measurement, each mental function possesses a certain set of specific factors which by definition do not correlate with the specific factors of another function nor with the g factor. According to Spearman, then, an individual's score on any mental test, say the Thorndike Examination, would be determined partly by the amount of g entering into his mental abilities manifested throughout the examination and partly by factors specific to each particular mental task he performs on the various tests. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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John Gray Peatman was born on March 16, 1904 in Centerville, Iowa, United States. He was the son of Clarence Albert and Binney Oriel (Gray) Peatman.
Peatman was educated at Columbia University, completing a Bachelor’s degree in 1927, a Master’s degree a year later and Doctor's degree in 1931.
Peatman worked as teacher of fiction at Sweet Briar College, Warren Wilson Master of Fine Arts for Writers program, Cumberland Writers Conference, and Old Dominion University Master of Fine Arts program.
In the 1940s he surveyed the responses of listeners to radio broadcasts and from this data developed a system that was later used to estimate audience share for both radio and television programs.
He joined the faculty of the City College of New York in 1929 and served as dean of the psychology department from 1952 to 1963. He also held teaching posts at such institutions as Columbia University and St. Mark’s Hospital in Manhattan during the nearly four decades until his retirement in 1970.
In addition, Peatman served as an educational consultant to the United States Air Force from 1949 to 1950 and presided over arbitration hearings for the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) during the mid-1950s.
His writings include the textbooks Descriptive and Sampling Statistics (1947), Geographical Sampling in Testing Appeals of Radio Broadcasts (1950), and Introduction to Applied Statistics (1963).
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Peatman married Lillie Burling in 1927. His marriage to Lillie ended in divorce. They had 3 children - Alice Peatman Dettmers (deceased), John and William. He then married Madeline Martin in 1948, she died in 1984. They had 3 children - Alice Peatman Dettmers (deceased), John and William. Survivors, in addition to his daughter, include two sons, Dr. John Burling Peatman of Atlanta and Dr. William Burling Peatman of Berlin; 9 grandchildren, and 18 great-grandchildren.