TY  - GEN
ID  - cogprints817
UR  - http://cogprints.org/817/
A1  - Snyder, Douglas M.
Y1  - 1986///
N2  - Though research has indicated that distributions of certain psychological phenomena such as intelligence (as it is assessed on various intelligence tests) are approximately normal as a rule, insufficient attention has been paid to the importance of theoretically deriving the normal distribution for psychological phenomena from first principles. If one accomplishes this task in a manner similar to that found in statistical mechanics and thermal physics (and I am not aware of another plausible theoretical derivation), the premise is made that randomness lies at the foundation of the psychological phenomena so described. These phenomena are in their very nature indisputably characterized by some degree of order.
KW  - intelligence
KW  -  Galton
KW  -  normal curve
KW  -  statistical mechanics
KW  -  statistics
KW  -  order
KW  -  randomness
KW  -  human systems
KW  -  representativeensemble
KW  -  fundamental assumption
KW  -  drunkard's walk
KW  -  thermal physics
TI  - On the Theoretical Derivation of the Normal Distribution for Psychological Phenomena
SP  - 399
AV  - public
EP  - 404
ER  -

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