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Thanks Joel. Cattell had a keen interest in taxnomies. There is an interesting quote in a letter between he and Jack Carroll about organizing an effort to set a standard taxonomy system via APA in my 2009 Intelligence article (http://www.iapsych.com/articles/mcgrew2009.pdf)
WordPress.com W. Joel Schneider posted: "Raymond Cattell (1987, p. 61): A taxonomy of abilities, like a taxonomy anywhere else in science, is apt to strike a certain type of impatient student as a gratuitous orgy of pedantry. Doubtless, compulsions to intellectual tidiness express themselves pr" Respond to this post by replying above this line | New post on Assessing Psyche, Engaging Gauss, Seeking Sophia | | Raymond Cattell (1987, p. 61): A taxonomy of abilities, like a taxonomy anywhere else in science, is apt to strike a certain type of impatient student as a gratuitous orgy of pedantry. Doubtless, compulsions to intellectual tidiness express themselves prematurely at times, and excessively at others, but a good descriptive taxonomy, as Darwin found in developing his theory, and as Newton found in the work of Kepler, is the mother of laws and theories. Raymond Cattell (1905–1998) | | | | |
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