The Psychometric Society is an international nonprofit professional organization devoted to the advancement of quantitative measurement practices in psychology, education, and the social sciences.
The society publishes a scientific journal

Scientific journal

In academic publishing, a scientific journal is a periodical publication intended to further the progress of science, usually by reporting new research. There are thousands of scientific journals in publication, and many more have been published at various points in the past...

 called Psychometrika concentrating in the area of statistics. The society also conducts an annual scientific meeting.

Past presidents include Louis Guttman, Joseph Kruskal

Joseph Kruskal

Joseph Bernard Kruskal, Jr. was an American mathematician, statistician, computer scientist and psychometrician. He was a student at the University of Chicago and at Princeton University, where he completed his Ph.D. in 1954, nominally under Albert W...

, Quinn McNemar

Quinn McNemar

Quinn McNemar was a US psychologist and statistician. He is known for his work on IQ tests, for his book Psychological Statistics and for McNemar's test, the statistical test he introduced in 1947....

, Frederick Mosteller and Robert L. Thorndike.