GENERAL INTELLIGENCE I3£ 
frost important, however. It is supposed to be worth 
about forty per cent of the total. 
Mr. L: My son would probably get a pretty low mark 
in that test. 
Miss N: And quite likely in the whole series, because 
there are very few arithmetical tests in the Binet-Simon 
intelligence scale. 
Mr. W: Are these tests supposed to be for general 
intelligence? 
Miss H: Yes. There are a great many little tests and 
the total average gives the general intelligence or intel 
lectual age level of a person. 
Mr. W: But isn’t that what we have just been talking 
a bout? Mr. Lambert says that he is not looking for 
general intelligence in the employment office but for 
specific ability like that of a toolmaker, or accountant, or 
en gineer. 
Mr. L: Oh, I don’t mean to say that we don’t want 
general intelligence. I believe that general intelligence is a 
g°od thing. But usually we have to be contented with 
s °tne one who is not so intelligent in a general way but 
^ote so in his own line. This is an age of specialization, 
you say, and we are only too glad if we can get men who 
know their own specialty and know it well. 
. Mr. W: It seems to me that this matter of general 
intelligence is largely a matter of education and depends 
opon the amount of schooling a man has had. 
Mr. L: Yes, and we have many a workman who is an 
e Rpert in his line who hasn’t had a grammar-school educa- 
J- l0n and who would make a pretty poor showing in general 
intelligence. 
Miss N: What finally convinced me that we, in our 
° Wn psychological work, were on the wrong track in this