Editing Historiometry (section)

==Current research==
Prominent current historiometry researchers include [[Dean Keith Simonton]] and [[Charles Murray (political scientist)|Charles Murray]].<ref name="Human Accomplishment">{{cite book
 | last = Murray
 | first = Charles
 | title = Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences 800 B.C to 1950
 | orig-year = 2003
 | publisher = HarperCollins
 | isbn = 978-0-06-019247-1
 | year = 2003
 | url-access = registration
 | url = https://archive.org/details/humanaccomplishm00murr
 }}</ref>

Historiometry is defined by Dean Keith Simonton as: a quantitative method of statistical analysis for [[retrospective]] data. In Simonton's work the [[raw data]] comes from [[psychometric]] assessment of famous personalities, often already deceased, in an attempt to assess [[creativity]], [[genius]] and [[talent development]].<ref>{{cite book
 | last = Simonton
 | first = Dean Keith
 | title = Genius Creativity and Leadership: Historiometric Inquiries
 | orig-year = 1999
 | publisher = iUniverse.com
 | isbn = 978-1-58348-438-8
 | year = 1999
 }}</ref>

Charles Murray's ''[[Human Accomplishment]]'' is one example of this approach to quantify the impact of individuals on [[technology]], science and the arts. This work tracks many famous innovators in these areas, and quantifies how much attention to them has been paid by past historians, in terms of the number of references and the number of pages of reference material devoted to each subject. However, this work has been criticized for manipulating its data to derive conclusions that would not follow from unmanipulated data.<ref>{{citation|title=Book Review: Human Accomplishment, by Charles Murray|journal=Tech Law Journal|date=November 20, 2003}}.</ref>