Discovery of Psychometric Proof of God June, 2011 Hyannis MA USA From: George Hammond, M.S. Physics/Psychometry To: PSY-REL-UK The quest for the Structural Model of Personality has been the cornerstone of Psychology ever since Hippocrates said there was such a thing 2500 years ago. Modern computerized psychometry very nearly succeeded in this quest, specifically Cattell, Eysenck, Goldberg, Costa & McCrae and others, but their failure to discover a prima facie causal biological mechanism for such a miracle has so far doomed the effort to failure. It was therefore an alarming turn of events when an errant physicist accidentally discovered, proved and published the long sought for biological mechanism in 1994 only to discover that interdisciplinary jealousy, personal ambition and hi-level dereliction in academic Psychology would ignore and suppress this pivotal discovery. I am alerting PSY-REL-UK about this because all efforts to engage the right wing academic research establishment in the US and Europe has been rebuffed and it appears that the Psychology establishment is fully prepared to suppress a crucial physics-biology discovery even if it means denying the world the delivery of the Structural Model which would transform Psychology into a prestigious science with a real Global influence! The discovery of the Structural Model since it turns out to be an axiomatic physics structure leads to much more than just the theory of Personality. It leads directly to an explanation of the structural model of social attitudes (the Bicameral/2-Party system), the explanation of the general theory of Psychology (the unconscious mind) and ultimately to no less than the worlds first scientific proof of God! Clearly the Structural Model is now a political problem and no longer a scientific problem. Its discovery is too much of a status-quo-breaker for the conservative establishment to accept and it is my hope that pressure can be brought to bear on conservative academia, particularly the APA that will precipitate at long last the historic birth of the Structural Model of Psychology. I won't waste time rebutting the usual suspicions concerning such a claim. Let me simply state the facts and allow PSY-REL-UK to be the judge: 1. I am a physicist (MS 1967) affiliated with the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health and have been researching Personality Psychometry for 30 years. I managed to published my discovery of the biological origin of the Structural Model of Personality in an obscure journal in 1994: (original paper NIP, Elsevier Science Ltd.) http://tinyurl.com/HAMMOND2 (free online research-only facsimile copy of paper is located at:) http://webspace.webring.com/people/eg/george_hammond/cart.html 2. It was during this period that I first became suspicious of the higher echelon in academic psychology research. At the time Hans Jurgen Eysenck was the most famous living psychologist. I first sent the paper to Hans for publication in his journal, P.A.I.D. it being the most conspicuous journal in the field. Much to my chagrin he handed the paper over to unqualified reviewers. He rejected the paper and in one of those recondite but telltale incidents he didn't even sign the rejection letter but simply put a checkmark on it. I caught up with Hans in person a few years later in Montreal Canada. but let me continue the chronology. I also wrote to Professor Jeffrey Gray, Hans' closest colleague in London, since my discovery not only confirmed Eysenck's Big-3 (ENP), it also confirmed Gray's 2-Factor "diagonal" theory. in fact it united the two. I was totally floored then when I received a particularly nasty letter from Jeffrey Gray suggesting that my theory was no doubt a delusion of grandeur and that he wouldn't waste time discussing it. I was also in touch with Dr. Paul Barrett, Hans' research chief, via his IDANET discussion list and several peculiar remarks of his began to clue me that there was something noticeably out of kilter in the Eysenckian school of psychometry research. Meanwhile, in the US the situation was hopeless and continues so. Hans Eysenck was the only genius in the field since the other genius, Raymond B. Cattell was over 90 and retired in Hawaii. I did receive several scrawled letters from Cattell who apparently lapped the envelope so many times it practically disintegrated before it reached me. He recognized my work immediately of course and even urged Prof. Widiger a much younger man to contact me but all I ever received from Widiger was a few well wishes on a postcard. Even the APA finally turned on Cattell accusing him of being a racist or some other such nonsense. I did talk to Ray's wife in Hawaii but she said Ray was so deaf there was no use putting him on the phone. His daughter, Heather Cattell was very helpful then being director of IPAT in Champaign Ill. and sent me copies of hard to find papers from their archives. After submitting my discovery of the Structural Model to 21 journals (simultaneously) and having every one of them rejecting it, I ran into Professor Richard Kitchener editor of New Ideas In Psychology who put the paper out for review. Kitchener was a Philosophy professor and a no nonsense person. In the first round one reviewer balked because the theory didn't explain the Big-5 model. Kichener told me to take another look at the problem and lo and behold the theory stunningly confirmed the Big-5 as the sum of Eysenck's 3 normals plus Gray's 2 diagonals: 3+2=5. This triumph convinced the holdout reviewer and the paper was unanimously published in 1994. Naturally, since New Ideas In Psychology is a lo-impact journal nobody has ever read the paper much less cited it, and the discovery of the biological origin of the Structural Model remains to this day languishing on library shelves. In the meantime I struck up a correspondence with fellow New Englander professor Peter F. Merenda chairman of the psychology department at URI. He had been involved in the discovery of the 4-Factor AVA model and was quite interested that my theory explained the biological origin of his model also (in fact the discovery explains the biological origin of every known psychometric model). Peter asked me if I wanted to be an invited speaker at the XXVI International (IUPsyS) Congress of Psychology in Montreal Canada on August 16, 1996. He said he had invited Hans Eysenck to speak and he had accepted the invitation. Naturally I was anxious to meet Hans so I accepted. I seated myself next to Hans on the dais with about 200 present in the audience. I first noticed something odd when I offered Hans a copy of my now published paper reporting the discovery of the Structural Model. He rather coolly replied "I've read it" and refused to take the paper. We sat for an hour listening to several internationally known Personality psychometrians. I finally got up and spoke for 30 minutes about my discovery and how it explained (i.e. physically caused) all of the known Factor Models in Personality Psychometry. I showed 20 carefully drawn slides illustrating the elementary physics-biology of the whole thing. I received a surprisingly energetic ovation but sat down with the distinct feeling that no one other than perhaps Hans had taken seriously a single word I said. Then Hans then got up and spoke for 30 minutes. I didn't pay much attention since he wasn't talking about psychometry but apparently about the international situation in Bosnia. I did hear him refer to me as "Dr. Hammond" which I suspected was another of his famous backhanded compliments since I know for a fact he was aware that I don't have a PhD in anything. Later I had a chance to talk to him privately on the mezzanine balcony overlooking the great hall and tried to ferret out his impression of my discovery, He actually told me at one point "I don't see the significance of it" which immediately struck me as disingenuous fakery since he had spent the last 30 years searching for the biological origin of the Structural Model commencing with his widely known 1967 book on the subject. and at that moment I suddenly realized that he was actually personally envious of my discovery. a discovery which he had failed to make in his long quest for the biological origin of the Structural Model! He had failed to realize that simple brain geometry (primary brain cleavage) was the root cause of the Structural Model of Personality, for instance Sperrian Lateralization and the Bell-Magendie motor sensory cleavage. And he was apparently annoyed that some no account physicist had wandered into the field and accidentally discovered it, and published it! Don't get me wrong, I immediately liked Hans Eysenck the minute I met him. He was a heroic figure, and close up even more so. Yet, there was unmistakably an air of the entrenched establishment about him that wasn’t going to cooperate with a mere upstart, a physicist no less, making a historic scientific discovery in Psychology which could possibly expose him. I came away feeling like I had just met perhaps the Kurt Waldheim of Psychology research and that politically speaking I was no match for him. Of course Hans Eysenck was 80 years old by the time I reached him. In fact he died a couple of years later of a brain tumor. But I still suspect that there must have been something that he could have done to prevent this discovery from simply turning in the wind since 1994 while the entire field of Psychometry has sunk into moribund stagnation without a hope of regaining its old momentum or its former glory. Now, before I leave this issue let me point out that I have informed every authority in the field of psychometry about this discovery, including the Heymans Institute in Groningen Holland. Although my discovery proves that 2nd order Factor structure in Personality is a CUBE, it turns out I am not the first one to suspect this. Gerard Heymans guessed it in 1930 and became so famous for doing so he founded the Heymans Institute which is now a world leader in psychometric Personality research. Louis Thurstone also surmised it when he made up his famous Factor Analytic "Box Problem". It turns out that the Structural Model of Personality is PRECISELY a "Thurstone's Box" at the 2nd order in Personality psychometry! I wrote an elegant synopsis of this discovery in a 2 page letter and emailed it to a dozen of the world's top psychometric authorities at the Heymans Institute including the director professor J.M.F. Ten Berge. Anyone desiring a succinct and comprehensive explanation of this discovery should read this 2 page letter which is fully illustrated. A copy was posted to IDANET (also a JISCMAIL.AC.UK email list; Paul Barrett moderator) and a copy is currently posted on my page on Academia.edu at: http://tinyurl.com/2b86k7e I emphasize that only high school physics and undergraduate psychometry is necessary to fully comprehend the stunning historic discovery described in this 2 page letter. Needless to say the Heymans institute has reacted exactly like Hans Eysenck. apparently the conservative wing of psychometric research is not about to allow a physicist to upset the apple cart with a fundamental discovery, even if it means selling the entire field of academic psychology research down the river. Finally, it is to be noted that the APA, of which I am not a member and which wouldn't even consider publishing a paper written by me, knows absolutely nothing of this discovery despite the fact that it was made by an American scientist and dozens of APA members are already aware of it! So much for the discovery of the biological origin of the Structural Model. However it turns out that that discovery was only the tip of the iceberg! The year after the conference in Montreal with Eysenck, I made yet another historic discovery in Factor Analytic Psychometry. This one even more unbelievable than the first! As anyone familiar with psychometric Factor Analysis (SPSS for instance) knows, when you factor a large correlation matrix and rotate it to Simple Structure you wind up with another correlation matrix of about half the size. That matrix can again be factored and rotated and so on. In fact, it only stops when you get down to one Factor and can't go any further. People have idly wondered for years where Personality Factor Analysis might end, and what the meaning of that final Factor might be! My discovery answered that question, and the answer turns out to be an utter shock! The last Factor turns out to be "God" no less, the God of the Bible. The discovery of the Structural Model leads immediately to the world's first and only, scientific proof of God! Now, why wasn't this discovered before I came along? Well, it very nearly was. Raymond B. Cattell almost got to the 4th Order which is where Psychometry stops. My theory shows that because the 2nd order structure is theoretically a cube, that there are therefore exactly 13-2nd Order Factors corresponding to the 13 symmetry axes of a common cube. Ray had meanwhile experimentally resolved somewhere between 12 and 14 Factors in the normal Personality domain. Without a theoretical explanation he couldn't be exactly sure how many Factors there were. Ray then Factored the 12x12 2nd Order matrix to the 3rd Order and extracted "4 or 5" 3rd -Order Factors. Three of the Factors I immediately recognized as Eysenck's ENP which I expected since the 3rd Order Factors should simply collapse onto the 2nd Orders since ENP are nearly orthogonal at the 2nd Order as Eysenck had proved. The existence of a 4th factor perplexed me until I realized Cattell had included not only Personality but Intelligence also in his data. I then realized that Psychology turns out to be not only a 3-dimensional space (as Hans argued for 20 years) because of 3-dimensional brain cleavage, it actually turns out to be 4-dimensional (space-time) space because Intelligence is time related (mental speed). This new theoretical discovery immediately shaved Rays "4 or 5" 3rd Orders down to exactly 4. Ray never bothered to factor his 3rd orders to the 4th Order, but he left us an intriguing message at the end of his 1975 paper*, he said: "The correlation among the tertiaries, though less invariant than among the secondaries, are reasonable stable and are set out for those who, with reinforcements, may wish to proceed to the fourth order." (R. B. Cattell 1975) Ref: Cattell 1975, Third order personality structure in Q-data: Evidence from 11 experiments. J. of Multivariate Experimental Personality and Clinical Psychology 1(3) 118-149 Ray didn't live to get to the 4th Order and discover God, but I did. Armed now with a theoretical proof of the exact number of 2nd and 3rd Order factors which was unavailable to Ray, I was able to redact his experimental 3rd Order matrix and Factor it to the 4th Order. Dr. Paul Barrett, then still working for Eysenck at the U. London was kind enough to run the matrix through SPSS for me, and Dr. David Routh who read about it on IDANET ran an independent check also. Naturally only ONE Factor emerged at the 4th Order (a 4x4 matrix can only determine 1 higher order Factor according to Thurstone's Rule). I had finally found out where all of Psychology (i.e. Personality plus Intelligence) ends. It ends in a single eigenvector Factor at the 4th Order! The immediate question of course, is what was the biological cause of this Final Factor? What was it? The answer is actually quite easy to discover. In fact by that time I already knew the answer even before I confirmed it. The Factor was obviously "GOD". yes the good old fashioned anthropomorphic invisible God of the Bible. I had actually discovered the World's first scientific proof of God! The actual biological cause of the single 4th Order Factors is easy to identify, it turns out to be caused by the Human Growth Curve Deficit (GCD). About 100 years ago the field of Auxology discovered that there is a Secular Trend in human growth. Evidence of the Secular Trend is commonplace. Modern soldiers cannot even fit into a medieval suit of armor for instance. School children in the US have gained 3.5 inches in height since 1900. The Flynn Effect shows world IQ increasing as much as 10 points per decade, due to brain growth caused by the rising standard of living, mainly nutrition. Moreover, studies of Third World malnutrition growth stunting show IQ losses of up to 50% due to growth stunting. In fact, the data shows that the entire human race, on average, is as much as 20% short of its full height and weight. An interesting Time Magazine cover story on the Secular Trend can be seen at: http://economics.sbs.ohio-state.edu/rsteckel/Articles/time6.htm If 20% of your body is missing, then 20% of your brain is missing. it is simply ungrown. It is not totally ungrown however, it still functions but in a partially conscious manner. This is the origin of Freud's famous "Unconscious Mind" and it turns out to be the biological cause of the top, last, final, single Factor in all of Psychology. Bear in mind that this eigenvector can be measured now to three significant figure accuracy in modern Psychometry! Now what does all of this mean. well for that you have to know some Physics. A correlation matrix in Psychology is referred to as "oblique". However, physicists refer to such matrices as "curved". In Physics the 4x4 space-time metric of XYZt is an oblique matrix and the physicists say that space-time is "curved" because of this, and that gravity is the physical cause of this curvature. What my discovery shows is that the intercorrelation matrix of ENPg in psychometry is likewise curved, and that it is the GCD that is causing it. Now, space-time, that is XYZt is simply what the physicists call "reality" or "objective reality". But my discovery shows that ENPg in psychometry is also curved and the "curvature" is caused by the brain growth deficit. or "God" to use common parlance. What this means is that the brain growth deficit causes a curvature of "subjective reality", and this curvature of reality in Psychology is called "God". Basically, the brain growth deficit causes the world to appear bigger and faster than it actually is just as gravity makes objective space-time appear bigger and faster than it actually is as discovered by Einstein. While the gravitational effect of objective reality is very miniscule, the effect of the brain growth deficit on subjective reality is very large. and this large and noticeable effect in Psychology has been recognized for thousands of years and is referred to as "God". Notice now that not only has the existence of God actually been proven, but that God can actually be measured to 3 significant figures by modern psychometry. Needless to say the technological applications of this discovery will be enormous. This curvature of subjective reality will ultimately be able to be simulated on virtual reality computers and the next age of psychiatric treatment may well be computerized virtual reality therapy where you will effect a personality change by "seeing" what your new reality will look like. After all, seeing is believing and may prove more effective than neuroleptic drugs or psychoanalysis ever were! By the way I published this discovery of a scientific proof of God in 2003, again In an obscure journal and a copy of the paper may be seen here: http://webspace.webring.com/people/eg/george_hammond/Hammond5s1.html Well, I will try to wrap this up by mentioning that I don't expect Psychology to take up the cause of advancing a scientific proof of God but they should know that that's where the Structural Model leads to. And we can be sure that there are large sectors of society who are vitally interested in the politics of such a development. Israel, the Vatican, the Islamic countries of the Middle East or even the Kansas City Board of Education, among other places come to mind. But in the meantime, it is clear that academic Psychology is now standing in the way of a major, indeed historic, Psychology discovery. The delivery of the Structural Model of Personality has been central to Psychology from the beginning, and I think PSY-REL-UK should know that there is dereliction of a very serious and injurious nature to the success of Psychology growing like a cancer in academia. I invite anyone interested to respond on the PSY-REL-UK discussion list, or contact me at [log in to unmask] George Hammond, M.S. Physics Massachusetts Department of Mental Health