Editing Historiometry (section)

==Origins==
Historiometry started in the early 19th century with studies on the relationship between age and achievement by [[Demographics of Belgium|Belgian]] [[mathematician]] [[Adolphe Quetelet]] in the careers of prominent French and English playwrights <ref>{{cite news
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}}</ref>  but it was [[Sir Francis Galton]], an English [[polymath]] who popularized historiometry in his 1869 work, ''[[Hereditary Genius]]''.<ref>{{cite book
 | last = Galton
 | first = Francis
 | title = Hereditary Genius
 | url = http://galton.org/books/hereditary-genius/
 | access-date = 2006-09-13
 | publisher = MacMillan & Co
 | location = London
 | year = 1869
 | isbn = 978-0-312-36989-7
 }}</ref> It was further developed by Frederick Adams Woods (who coined the term ''historiometry''<ref>{{cite journal
 | last = Simonton
 | first = Dean Keith
 | year = 2003
 | title = Qualitative and quantitative analyses of historical data
 | journal = Annu. Rev. Psychol.
 | volume = 54
 | pmid = 12171999
 | pages = 617–640
 | doi = 10.1146/annurev.psych.54.101601.145034
 | s2cid = 33595250
 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal
 | last = Woods
 | first = Frederick Adams
 | year = 1909
 | title = A new name for a new science
 | journal = Science
 | volume = 30
 | pages = 697–736
 | doi = 10.1126/science.30.777.703
 | pmid = 17792096
 | issue = 777
 | bibcode = 1909Sci....30..703A
 | url = https://zenodo.org/record/1448032
 }}</ref>) in the beginning of the 20th century.<ref>{{cite journal
 | last = Woods
 | first = Frederick Adams
 | year = 1911
 | title = Historiometry as an exact science
 | journal = Science
 | volume = 33
 | pages = 568–574
 | doi = 10.1126/science.33.850.568
 | pmid = 17790108
 | issue = 850
 | bibcode = 1911Sci....33..568A
 | url = https://zenodo.org/record/1448056
 }}</ref> Also [[psychologist]] [[Paul E. Meehl]] published several papers on historiometry later in his career, mainly in the area of medical history, although it is usually referred to as ''cliometric metatheory'' by him.<ref>{{cite journal
 | author = Faust, D., & Meehl, P. E.
 | year = 2002
 | title = Using meta-scientific studies to clarify or resolve questions in the philosophy and history of science
 | journal = Philosophy of Science
 | volume = 69
 | pages = S185–S196
 | doi = 10.1086/341845
 | citeseerx = 10.1.1.560.5762
 | s2cid = 62602513
 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal
 | author = Meehl, P. E.
 | year = 1992
 | title = Cliometric metatheory: The actuarial approach to empirical, history-based philosophy of science
 | journal = Psychological Reports
 | volume = 71
 | pages = 339–467
 | url = https://meehl.umn.edu/sites/meehl.umn.edu/files/files/154cliometricmetatheory.pdf
 }}</ref>

Historiometry was the first field studying genius by using scientific methods.<ref name=Simonton2008>{{cite journal | year = 2008 | title = A Reflective Conversation with Dean Keith Simonton | journal = North American Journal of Psychology | volume = 10 | issue = 3| pages = 595–602 }}</ref>