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Bartlett's pioneering book, Remembering describes a series of studies of transmission of various material, from Native American folk tales to descriptions of sporting events. From these he made two major inferences, corroborated by later studies: loss of the detail and dependence of the quality of remembering on the pre-existing knowledge.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, often simply called Bartlett's, is an American reference work that is the longest-lived and most widely distributed collection of quotations. The book was first issued in 1855 and is currently in its 19th edition, published in 2022.
Sir Frederic Charles Bartlett FRS [1] (20 October 1886 – 30 September 1969) was a British psychologist and the first professor of experimental psychology at the University of Cambridge. He was one of the forerunners of cognitive psychology as well as cultural psychology . [ 2 ]
Guide to Reference, published in 2008 as the online successor to Guide to Reference Books, was a selective guide to the best print and online reference sources. An editorial team of reference librarians and subject experts selected and annotated some 16,000 entries, which were organized by subject.
Bartlett was born in Mexico City.He is the son of American author and artist Paul Alexander Bartlett and his wife, American poet Elizabeth Bartlett.Steven James Bartlett received his B.A. in 1965 from Raymond College, an Oxford-style honors college of the University of the Pacific, his M.A. in philosophy in 1968 from the University of California, Santa Barbara, his Ph.D. in philosophy in 1971 ...
T. S. Eliot – Selected Essays, 1917-1932 [27] Constantin Gane – Trecute vieți de doamne și domnițe (Bygone Lives of Queens and Princesses; first volume) [citation needed] J. B. S. Haldane – The Causes of Evolution; Annabel Jackson – A Victorian Childhood; Kepelino (died c. 1878) – Kepelino's Traditions of Hawaii (translation of ...
In statistics, Bartlett's test, named after Maurice Stevenson Bartlett, [1] is used to test homoscedasticity, that is, if multiple samples are from populations with equal variances. [2] Some statistical tests, such as the analysis of variance , assume that variances are equal across groups or samples, which can be checked with Bartlett's test.
Neil Bartlett (15 September 1932 – 5 August 2008) was a British chemist who specialized in fluorine and compounds containing fluorine, and became famous for creating the first noble gas compounds. He taught chemistry at the University of British Columbia and the University of California, Berkeley .