In July 2009 William Dickens was invited to give the opening keynote lecture to the International Meetings of the Psychometrics Society. He spoke on what psychologists could learn about modeling psychological phenomena from the way economists use models and illustrated it with his own work on cognitive ability.
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Commentary
Psychometrics Society Keynote on Modeling in Psychology
July 21, 2009