# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-l-thorndike
# Generated: 2026-09-01T05:52:59.707Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-l-thorndike"
name: "Robert L. Thorndike"
slug: "robert-l-thorndike"
description: "Robert Ladd Thorndike was an American psychometrician and educational psychologist who made significant contributions to the analysis of reliability, the interpretation of error, cognitive ability, and the design and analysis of comparative surveys of achievement test performance of students in various countries."
tagline: "American psychologist (1910–1990)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1910-09-22"
deathDate: "1990-09-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.587185725871857
  historical:           3.938445333333333
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  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_L._Thorndike"
    title: "Robert L. Thorndike"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Ladd_Thorndike"
    title: "Robert Ladd Thorndike"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_L._Thorndike"
    title: "Robert L. Thorndike"
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  - url: "https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Thorndike"
    title: "Robert Thorndike"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4180839"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations