Margaret V. Cobb

Cobb was born in Easthampton, Massachusetts, in 1884.{{Cite book |date=2001-02-01 |title=The Biographical dictionary of women in science: pioneering lives from ancient times to the mid-20th century }} She received her bachelor's degree at Radcliffe College, where she graduated with distinction in 1910.{{Cite news |date=1910-06-29 |title=Miss Denkinger honor student |pages=16 |work=The Boston Globe |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/99240412/miss-denkinger-honor-student/ |access-date=2022-04-07}} At her graduation, the graduation speaker was Frederick Perry Fish who spoke on how "women's specialization was the home". In 1913 she earned an M.A. from the University of Illinois.{{Cite thesis |title=Inheritance of arithmetical qualities: a quantitative study |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/430342444 |date=1913 |language=English |first=Margaret V |last=Cobb|oclc = 430342444}} Cobb also did research at the University of Michigan and the Marine Biological Laboratory.{{Cite news |date=1918-07-07 |title=Army psychologists |pages=26 |work=Nashville Banner |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/99242277/army-psychologists/ |access-date=2022-04-07}} In 1981 she joined the United States Army to work in the Army Medical Department.{{Cite news |date=1918-07-07 |title=Clipped From Los Angeles Evening Express |pages=43 |work=Los Angeles Evening Express |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/99241903/los-angeles-evening-express/ |access-date=2022-04-07}}{{Cite news |date=1918-07-22 |title=Woman doctor is given Army job |pages=3 |work=Star Tribune |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/99242064/woman-doctor-is-given-army-job/ |access-date=2022-04-07}}

From 1922 until 1928, she worked in public schools in New York City teaching gifted children,{{Cite news |date=1926-04-17 |title=Women school board members invited |pages=5 |work=The Record |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/99239478/women-school-board-members-invited/ |access-date=2022-04-07}} which was described in a full-page article about her work in 1924.{{Cite news |date=1924-06-08 |title=Margaret Cobb, Educational Psychologists makes a plea for the super-normal child |pages=19 |work=Middletown Daily Herald |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/99241831/margaret-cobb-educational/ |access-date=2022-04-07}} She was entered in the 1949 edition of American Men of Science.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ea9CC4lCicQC&dq=margaret+cobb+amerada+petroleum+corporation&pg=PA458 |title=American Men of Science: A Biographical Directory |date=1949 |publisher=Bowker |pages=458 |language=en}}

Cobb died in Concord, New Hampshire, on November 19, 1963.{{Cite news |date=1963-11-21 |title=Margaret Cobb, psychologist, dies in Concord |pages=2 |work=Nashua Telegraph |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/99241293/margaret-cobb-psychologist-dies-in/ |access-date=2022-04-07}}

Cobb's work centered on psychology where she conducted studies on intelligence, specially the use of intelligence tests. In one of her studies, Cobb conducted a statistical analysis on the Medical Corps officers of the U.S. Army and found that they were of a lower intellectual status in general than the other branches of the Army.{{Cite book |last1=Cobb |first1=Margaret V |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5rw0AQAAMAAJ |title=Intellectual and educational status of the medical profession as represented in the United States Army |last2=Yerkes |first2=Robert M |last3=National Research Council (U.S.) |date=1921 |publisher=Published by the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences |location=Washington, D.C. |language=English |oclc=808864870}} While they contributed this to the urgent necessity of Army medical officers during World War I and the increased average age of said officers, she concluded that analysis and considered other testing or more educational training that should done for entrance into medical school and the profession. Another article by Cobb found that how well a child could do simple mathematical calculations such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division correlated strongly with how well their parent could do the same activities.{{Cite journal |last=Cobb |first=Margaret V. |date=1917 |title=A preliminary study of the inheritance of arithmetical abilities. |url=http://content.apa.org/journals/edu/8/1/1 |journal=Journal of Educational Psychology |language=en |volume=8 |issue=1 |pages=1–20 |doi=10.1037/h0075614 |issn=0022-0663|url-access=subscription }} After controlling for environmental confounds, Cobb attributed her results to hereditary inheritance.{{Cite news |date=1917-09-02 |title=Is ability to figure inherited? |pages=19 |work=The Star Press |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/99239633/is-ability-to-figure-inherited/ |access-date=2022-04-07}}

Cobb was named a fellow of the American Association for Advancement of Science in 1925.{{Cite web |title=Historic Fellows {{!}} American Association for the Advancement of Science |url=https://www.aaas.org/fellows/historic |access-date=2022-04-06 |website=www.aaas.org |language=en}}{{Cite book |last1=Ogilvie |first1=Marilyn Bailey |url=http://archive.org/details/biographicaldict00ogil_0 |title=The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: Pioneering lives from ancient times to the mid-20th century |last2=Harvey |first2=Joy Dorothy |date=2000 |publisher=New York : Routledge |others=Internet Archive |isbn=978-0-415-92038-4 |pages=275–276}}

• {{Cite journal |last=Cobb |first=Margaret V. |date=1917 |title=A preliminary study of the inheritance of arithmetical abilities. |url=http://content.apa.org/journals/edu/8/1/1 |journal=Journal of Educational Psychology |language=en |volume=8 |issue=1 |pages=1–20 |doi=10.1037/h0075614 |issn=0022-0663|url-access=subscription }}
• {{Cite book |last1=Cobb |first1=Margaret V |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5rw0AQAAMAAJ |title=Intellectual and educational status of the medical profession as represented in the United States Army |last2=Yerkes |first2=Robert M |last3=National Research Council (U.S.) |date=1921 |publisher=Published by the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences |location=Washington, D.C. |language=English |oclc=808864870}}
• {{Cite book |last1=Thorndike |first1=Edward L |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/773173878 |title=The psychology of algebra |last2=Cobb |first2=Margaret V |date=2010 |publisher=Nabu Press |isbn=978-1-174-93227-4 |location= |language=English |oclc=773173878}}
• {{Cite journal |last1=Cobb |first1=Margaret V |last2=Hollingworth |first2=Leta S |date=1925 |title=The regression of siblings of children who test at or above 135 I. Q. |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/4644342763 |journal=Journal of Educational Psychology |language=English |volume=16 |issue=1 |pages=1–7 |doi=10.1037/h0075303 |issn=0022-0663 |oclc=4644342763|url-access=subscription }}
• {{Cite journal |last=Cobb |first=Margaret V |date=1922 |title=The limits set to educational achievement by limited intelligence. |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/4644336275 |journal=Journal of Educational Psychology |language=English |volume=13 |issue=9 |pages=546–555 |doi=10.1037/h0067893 |issn=0022-0663 |oclc=4644336275}}
• {{Cite book |last1=Thorndike |first1=Edward L. |url=http://content.apa.org/books/11240-000 |title=The measurement of intelligence. |last2=Bregman |first2=E. O. |last3=Cobb |first3=M. V. |last4=Woodyard |first4=Ella |last5=Inst of Educational Research Div of Psychology |date=1926 |publisher=Teachers College Bureau of Publications |location=New York |language=en |doi=10.1037/11240-000}}

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