Harold Gulliksen

{{Short description|American psychologist}}

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| name = Harold Oliver Gulliksen

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1903|7|18}}

| birth_place = WashingtonThere is a Harold Gulliksen (1903) born to Signa M. and Charles Gulliksen Gulliksen in Washington, DC

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1996|10|27|1903|7|18}}

| death_place = Princeton, New Jersey

| nationality = American

| fields = Psychology

| workplaces = Princeton University

| alma_mater = University of Chicago
University of Washington

| doctoral_advisor = Louis Leon Thurstone

| doctoral_students = Michael Friendly
Howard Wainer
James Ramsay

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Harold Oliver Gulliksen (July 18, 1903 – October 27, 1996) was an American psychologist. A professor at Princeton University for most of his academic career, Gulliksen pioneered in the field of psychometrics.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/11/03/nyregion/harold-gulliksen-93-pioneer-in-testing-dies.html |title=Harold Gulliksen, 93, Pioneer in Testing, Dies |newspaper=New York Times |date=November 3, 1996 }} In 1952 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.[http://www.amstat.org/awards/fellowslist.cfm View/Search Fellows of the ASA] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160616161612/https://www.amstat.org/awards/fellowslist.cfm |date=2016-06-16 }}, accessed 2016-07-23.

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