Catharine Cox Miles

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Catharine Cox Miles (birth name Catharine Morris Cox ; * 1890 in San Jose , California , † October 11, 1984 in Sandy Spring , Maryland ) was an American psychologist .

Life

Cox received his PhD from Stanford University and worked with u. a. with Lewis M. Terman . Catharine M. Cox was married to the experimental psychologist Walter R. Miles .

In 1926, Cox retrospectively measured the intelligence quotient of famous men and women who had lived between 1450 and 1850 on the basis of available data . Here, John Stuart Mill , Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz performed particularly well. However, Cox's methodology has been criticized.

Publications

literature

  • Robert R. Sears: Catharine Cox Miles: 1890-1984 . In: The American Journal of Psychology . tape 99 , no. 3 , 1986, pp. 431-433 , JSTOR : 1422495 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Laura Ball: Catharine Cox Miles - Psychology's Feminist Voices. In: www.feministvoices.com. Retrieved June 22, 2016 .