John E. "Jack" Hunter (29 March 1939 – June 26, 2002) was an American

psychology Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior. Its subject matter includes the behavior of humans and nonhumans, both consciousness, conscious and Unconscious mind, unconscious phenomena, and mental processes such as thoughts, feel ...

professor known for his work in methodology. His best-known work is ''Methods of Meta-Analysis: Correcting Error and Bias in Research Findings.'' The

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named a research award in his honor.

Career

Hunter received his

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in psychology from the

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC, U of I, Illinois, or University of Illinois) is a public land-grant research university in the Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area, Illinois, United States. Established in 1867, it is the f ...

. He taught at

Michigan State University Michigan State University (Michigan State or MSU) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in East Lansing, Michigan, United States. It was founded in 1855 as the Agricultural College of the State o ...

for most of his career. He co-authored two books and authored or co-authored over 200 articles and book chapters on a wide variety of methodological topics, including confirmatory and exploratory

factor analysis Factor analysis is a statistical method used to describe variability among observed, correlated variables in terms of a potentially lower number of unobserved variables called factors. For example, it is possible that variations in six observe ...

meta-analysis Meta-analysis is a method of synthesis of quantitative data from multiple independent studies addressing a common research question. An important part of this method involves computing a combined effect size across all of the studies. As such, th ...

, measurement theory and methods,

statistics Statistics (from German language, German: ', "description of a State (polity), state, a country") is the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data. In applying statistics to a s ...

, and research methods. He also published numerous research articles on such substantive topics as

intelligence Intelligence has been defined in many ways: the capacity for abstraction, logic, understanding, self-awareness, learning, emotional knowledge, reasoning, planning, creativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving. It can be described as t ...

, attitude change, the relation between attitudes and behavior, validity generalization, differential validity/selection fairness, and selection utility. In 1994 he was one of 52 signatories on "

Mainstream Science on Intelligence "Mainstream Science on Intelligence" was a public statement issued by a group of researchers led by psychologist Linda Gottfredson. It was published originally in ''The Wall Street Journal'' on December 13, 1994, as a response to criticism of the ...

," an editorial written by

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and published in the ''

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'', which aimed to promote a reasoned discussion of the heated debate arising from publication of ''

The Bell Curve ''The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life'' is a 1994 book by the psychologist Richard J. Herrnstein and the political scientist Charles Murray in which the authors argue that human intelligence is substantially influe ...

'' on

. Hunter received the Distinguished Scientific Award for Contributions to Applied Psychology (joint with

Frank L. Schmidt Frank L. Schmidt (April 29, 1944 – August 21, 2021) was an American psychology Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior. Its subject matter includes the behavior of humans and nonhumans, both consciousness, conscious and ...

), and the Distinguished Scientific Contributions Award from the

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(SIOP) (also joint with Schmidt). He was a Fellow of the

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, the

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, and of SIOP.

Publications

Hunter wrote or contributed to several publications. His 1990 book, co-authored with

and listed below, cites 15 publications by Hunter, beginning with a 1977 paper, and 17 co-authored publications, of which from 1977 onwards, 12 were co-authored with Schmidt. * * *

References

1939 births 2002 deaths University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumni Michigan State University faculty Fellows of the American Psychological Association 20th-century American psychologists {{US-psychologist-stub