Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The branch of psychology that deals with the design, administration, and interpretation of quantitative tests for the measurement of psychological variables such as intelligence, aptitude, and personality traits. Also called psychometry.
Wiktionary
- n. psychology The design of psychological tests to measure intelligence, aptitude and personality; and the analysis and interpretation of their results.
WordNet 3.0
- n. any branch of psychology concerned with psychological measurements
Etymologies
- psycho- + metrics (Wiktionary)
Examples
“As far as I know, he is not an expert in psychometrics or genetics.”
Thoughts on Education, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“But more than that, the science in "The Bell Curve" is very much in the mainstream of psychometrics, which is to say the kinds of things we say do not push the edge of what is known at any point.”
The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life
“token-object reading" because of the possible confusion with "psychometrics," which is a branch of psychology.”
“She explains why we are having such trouble persuading students to pursue careers in chemistry, psychometrics, physics, biotechnology and related pursuits.”
The Washington Post: Why science careers, and courses, aren't so popular
“Google will record and store consumers' purchases as well as analyze reactive psychometrics via patented facial and biometric detection technology at the point of purchase.”
The Huffington Post: Pablo Andreu: Larry Page Takes Google in New Direction
“The main difference between our programs and others is that ours is based on an interest inventory (the process outlined above) rather than on psychometrics.”
“Both of these psychometrics are ones I have encountered hardly at all in ELT and consistently in my work outside (for the National School of Government in training senior civil servants and for Bath University School of Management as a tutor on fast track executive MBA programmes).”
“But there's no excuse today for limiting psychometrics to 1950s strategies.”
The Huffington Post: Tom Vander Ark: No Excuse for Sucky Items
“Hows about the horror of an âFâ on your psychometrics/social psychology exam?”
The Volokh Conspiracy » 1. Science, Faith, and Not Ruling Out Possibilities
“We need comprehensive tracking of metrics of value: improved biometrics, psychometrics, and econometrics.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘psychometrics’.
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SCIE - Be the first...
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stochastic, disputant, state-led, almshouse, exceptionality, bibliographical, t-test, z-score, personal/social, neoplastic, stroma, ludic and 288 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
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SCIE - statistics
a priori probability, Abbe-Helmert crit..., absolute error, absolutely unbias..., accuracy, ACF, affinity, AIC, algorithm, allometry, alphabet, anomic and 4171 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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psycho-
also psych- , psi- ; relating to the mind or psychology
psychometrics, psychobabble, psychiatrist, psychologist, psychotropic, psionic, psychotherapy, psychotherapist, psycho, psychotic, psychoanalysis, psychosomatic and 2 more...
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born2badored's Words
livid, fnordy, grok, bloopy, bokonon, disinformation, psychometrics, trip hop, acid jazz, bauble, dynamic, constant and 91 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for psychometrics.
dgg1107 Pyschometrics is used with the hypotheses testing academic research using especially quantitative analysis of survey correlations with post-positive epistemology. Jun 20, 2009
born2badored never tell me how you feal Dec 6, 2006