Truman Lee Kelley

Truman Lee Kelley (1884 – 1961) was an American researcher who made seminal contributions to statistics and psychology.^[1]

Life

He was born in Whitehall, Muskegon County, Michigan in 1884.^[2] He died in 1961.^[2]

Career

He received his A.M. degree in psychology from the University of Illinois in 1911,^[2] where he became one of the four founding students of Kappa Delta Pi.^[3] He completed his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1914 under the supervision of Edward Thorndike.^[2] After doing so, he worked as an instructor at the University of Texas and at Teachers College, and then in 1920 became a professor at Stanford University. He moved to Harvard University in 1931, and retired in 1950.^[1]

Bibliography

His books include:

• Statistical Method. New York: Macmillan (1923).
• Interpretation of Educational Measurements (1927)^[4]
• Crossroads in the Mind of Man (1928)^[5]
• Scientific Method; Its Function in Research and in Education (1929)^[1]
• Tests and Measurements in the Social Sciences (coauthor, 1934)^[1]
• Essential Traits of Mental Life (1935)^[1]
• The Kelley's Statistical Tables (1938; 2nd ed., 1948)^[1]
• Fundamentals of Statistics (1947)^[1]