Zollhandbuch für die Ausfuhr nach Rußland 1906-1917

Grundzüge der Sozialpolitik

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Identifikator:: 100638653X

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-39121

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Zollhandbuch für die Ausfuhr nach Rußland 1906-1917

Edition:: Vierte neu bearbeitete Auflage

Place of publication:: Berlin

Publisher:: Deutsch-Russischer Verein

Year of publication:: 1912

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (XVI, 592 Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2017

Collection:: Economics Books

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2 4 4 EMPLOYMENT PSYCHOLOGY psychological tests. It has been seen how the use of tests makes it possible to compare applicants in an exact way with each other and with a mathematically exact standard which has been experimentally determined beforehand. The observational method does not provide such stand ards, and makes it impossible to compare people with each other except in the crudest way. Nor does it pro vide a standard type, based upon a careful-job analysis, to which applicants can be compared. Sometimes, the pic ture of a man, well known as a success in a particular field, is given as an example. But such pictures are not scientific standards, and can not be used as a basis for making measurements and exact comparisons. The pictures of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln can not be used as a guide in the election of other pres idents. Moreover, it is absurd to expect an observer to carry standards in his head, and to compare sizes, colors, textures and so on in his mind. This is the very antithesis of the scientific method. Finally, the method of observation described does not rise above describing character in terms of gen eralities and abstract personal qualities. Since its funda mental measurements are of the crudest sort, the terms in which it estimates people are necessarily equally crude. The great variety of distinctions and the many concrete differences in abilities which must be taken into account in modern industry are covered here only by generalities. It may be that observation is better cal culated to bring out the extreme differences between men, to select the genius or the exceptional man from among the large and colorless mediocre class. This would indeed be a boon to mankind. However, a scientific procedure which can attain to this height has not yet been

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