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Dean Simonton || The Science of Genius

The Psychology Podcast

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The Historiometric Approach

The term was actually a coin in the early part of the twentieth century, to describe any kind of method where you take historical and biographical data. When i did my dissertation, i hadn't heard f the term, so i just called what i did a archiva data analysis. But archivea data analysis is too broad. It can compass a lot of things, and not necessoe histormetric. That's not really history metraly, but it's our tiv for for artive data to be history metric. The first study notws, published in 18 35, makes histmetrics the oldest method used in the behaviora sciences.

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