Everett Franklin Lindquist

Everett Franklin Lindquist (June 4, 1901 – May 13, 1978) was a professor of education at the University of Iowa College of Education. He is best known as the creator of the ACT and other standardized tests. His contributions to the field of educational testing are significant and still evident today. He was also an early popularizer, and perhaps originator, of the inconsistent hybrid form of statistical hypothesis testing (mixing the incompatible approaches of Ronald Fisher and of Neyman–Pearson), in his textbook Statistical Analysis In Educational Research (1940). This approach, despite its fundamental flaws, has been extremely influential, and is now widespread in statistical applications and science.