Definitions for Stanley Smith Stevens
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1. Stevens, Smitty Stevens, S. Smith Stevens, Stanley Smith Stevensnoun

   United States psychologist and psychophysicist who proposed Stevens' power law to replace Fechner's law (1906-1973)

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1. Stanley Smith Stevens

   Stanley Smith Stevens (November 4, 1906 – January 18, 1973) was an American psychologist who founded Harvard's Psycho-Acoustic Laboratory, studying psychoacoustics, and he is credited with the introduction of Stevens's power law. Stevens authored a milestone textbook, the 1400+ page Handbook of Experimental Psychology (1951). He was also one of the founding organizers of the Psychonomic Society. In 1946 he introduced a theory of levels of measurement widely used by scientists but whose use in some areas of statistics has been criticized. In addition, Stevens played a key role in the development of the use of operational definitions in psychology.A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Stevens as the 52nd most cited psychologist of the 20th century. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the United States National Academy of Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society.

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1. stanley smith stevens

   Stanley Smith Stevens was an American psychologist who founded Harvard's Psycho-Acoustic Laboratory and contributed to the development of Stevens's power law. He is best known for his work in the fields of psychophysics, sensory psychology, and his creation of the theory of sensory scales, among other research areas. This theory proposed four levels of measurement, namely: nominal, ordinal, interval and ratio scales. Stevens was born in 1906 and died in 1973.

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1. Stanley Smith Stevens

   Stanley Smith Stevens was an American psychologist who founded Harvard's Psycho-Acoustic Laboratory and is credited with the introduction of Stevens' power law. Stevens authored a milestone textbook, the 1400+ page "Handbook of Experimental Psychology". He was also one of the founding organizers of the Psychonomic Society. In 1946 he introduced a theory of levels of measurement often used by statisticians. In addition, Stevens played a key role in the development of the use of operational definitions in psychology.

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