纪念斯皮尔曼教授50周年忌辰

In memory of the 50th anniversary of the death ofProfessor C.E.Spearman

去年是斯皮尔曼教授逝世 5 0周年 ,英国数学与统计心理学报出了纪念专号。但少数人趁机掀起了学派之争 ,特别是洛菲二人的《谁是斯皮尔曼等级相关的发明人》和《斯皮尔曼和威尔逊论因素不决定性》。本文就两个洛菲对斯皮尔曼的污蔑 ,作了针锋相对的反击 ,特别是对等级相关 ,详尽地阐明了斯皮尔曼的特殊贡献 ,并对桑代克的评价作了较详细的介绍。对巴塞洛缪有关因素的起源与发展 ,和利维有关斯皮尔曼对测验的贡献 ,则简单概括了他们的结论与评价。最后则对专刊不由英国心理学报举办感到遗憾 ,因为这样只能侧重方法论的讨论 ,认为对斯皮尔曼智力理论、认知原理完全不提是舍本逐末 ,以致许多斯皮尔曼的特出贡献都无法表达。这意味着英国心理学界对他的冷漠 ,无从光大其有价值的贡献。

To pay homage to Professor Spearman, we offer a rebuttal of the malicious and sarcastic articles published in the British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology (one issue raised in the article by A. D. Lovie dealt with who discovered Spearman's Rank Correlation, while another article written jointly by both A. D. and P. Lovies discussed factor indeterminacy).We also elaborate upon Thorndike's obituary article of 1945 and put forth a more favorable commentary of Wilson's role in the discussion.Besides the attempt to set right the baseless accusations in the Lovie articles, the merits of rank and rank correlation are enumerated and indeterminism is re evaluated.Prof.Spearman's goals and aspirations for psychological science are quoted from his own pioneer article, and I hope that his spirit will spur us on in our contributions to psychological science.