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Who Belongs in the Family?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2025

Robert L. Thorndike*
Affiliation:
Teachers College, Columbia University

Abstract

I was sitting before my TV set, a while back, watching Captain Video and pondering the organizational problems of psychologists, psychometricians, psychodiagnosticians, psycho-somatists, psychosomnabulists, and psychoceramics (crack-pots to you). Wondering what I might do, in my small way, to help out, I decided to enlist Captain Video's help to bring me from the Black Planet that superogalactian hypermetrician, Dr. Idnozs Hcahscror-Tenib, cosmos-famous discoverer of Serutan.

Why delay? The Galaxy was on its way. and in half a light year Dr. Tenib was at my side prepared to devote his gargantuan talents to the task.

Seeing no point in confusing the good doctor by trying to describe to him the present administrative hodgepodge, I said, “Doctor, let's start from scratch. I want you to find out for me how these good people who are present at the annual meeting of the APA structure themselves? What families are represented? How many, or better, how few? And who belongs to each?”

Type
Original Paper
Copyright
Copyright © 1953 The Psychometric Society

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Footnotes

*

Presidential address to the Psychometric Society, September 7, 1953.