Jump to content

Richard Lowry (psychologist)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Richard Lowry
Born
Richard James Lowry

1940 (age 83–84)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materBrandeis University
Known forVassarStats website
Scientific career
FieldsPsychology
Statistics
InstitutionsVassar College
ThesisMale-female Differences in Attitudes Towards Death (1965)

Richard J. Lowry (born 1940)[1] is an American psychologist and Professor of Psychology Emeritus at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. He is the developer of the computational statistics website VassarStats and its political offshoot Scoping the Polls.[2][3][4] He received his Ph.D. from Brandeis University in 1965, and first joined the faculty of Vassar College the same year. He was named the William R. Kenan Chair at Vassar in 1987, and was later named the Jacob P. Giraud Chair of Natural History there. He retired from the faculty at Vassar in 2006.[5][6]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ "Lowry, Richard, 1940-". Library of Congress Name Authority File. Retrieved 2020-01-16.
  2. ^ "VassarStats: Statistical Computation Web Site". vassarstats.net. Retrieved 2020-01-16.
  3. ^ "Scoping the Polls". Vassar College. Retrieved 2020-01-16.
  4. ^ "SITE VISIT: Free Stats". Science. 288 (5470): 1295b–1295. 2000-05-26. doi:10.1126/science.288.5470.1295b. S2CID 220088954.
  5. ^ Beck, Rachel (March 2004). "The Other Class of '04". Vassar, the Alumnae/i Quarterly. Retrieved 2020-01-16.
  6. ^ "Emeriti - Faculty". Vassar College. Retrieved 2020-01-16.
[edit]