Famous People with Name Guilford

Joy Paul Guilford            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Joy Paul Guilford: was a US psychologist, best remembered for his psychometric study of human intelligence, including the important distinction between convergent and divergent production.Developing the views of L. L. Thurstone, Guilford rejected Charles Spearman's view that intelligence could be characterized in a single numerical parameter and proposed that three dimensions were necessary for accurate description: content, operations, and productions.Promoted to Chief of the Psychological Research Unit at the U.S. Army Air Forces Training Command Headquarters in Fort Worth, Guilford oversaw the "Stanines Project," which identified eight specific intellectual abilities crucial to flying a plane. (Stanines, now a common term in educational psychology, was coined during Guilford's project). Over the course of World War II, Guilford's use of these eight factors in the development of the two-day Classification Test Battery was significant in increasing graduation rates for aircrew trainees

Jesse Poore Guilford            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Jesse Poore Guilford: was an American amateur golfer. He is most notable for winning the United States Amateur Championship in 1921.He was one of the top amateur golfers in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as well as the United States. His nickname was Siege Gun for his long