The Industrial Revolution

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Identifikator:: 1008917265

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-19129

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Flückiger, Otto http://d-nb.info/gnd/117736708

Title:: Die Schweiz

Edition:: Zweite Auflage

Place of publication:: Zürich

Publisher:: Druck und Verlag von Schultheß & Co.

Year of publication:: 1914

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (VI, 243 Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2017

Collection:: Economics Books

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GENERAL INTELLIGENCE 133 a candidate for work, Mr. Lambert, you usually have in mind some particular kind of work, I believe? Mr. L: Yes. Nearly every applicant has a certain choice and we try to follow that as much as possible. Mr. W: Suppose a man applies for work as an engineer. , e have just admitted that intelligence is the most important thing to look for. Would you, in interviewing this man, look for his general intelligence—that is, for his ay erage knowledge of English, geography, history, arith metic, engineering, and so forth—or would you be in terested in his engineering ability alone? Mr. L: Primarily the latter. As long as he has ability as an engineer, it wouldn’t matter much if he were below the average in other respects. Mr. W: And if a candidate applies for a job as tool- maker, would you be interested in his general intelligence, or m his ability as a toolmaker? Mr. L: Why, in every case when I interview a man I °°k for some special kind of intelligence, because almost ever y job requires intelligence of a different kind. . Miss N: Then you don’t hold it against a man if his mtellig ence i n other respects is likely to bring his general av erage down? th‘ R " ^^tainly n °t - We can’t all be good in every- ln g> Miss Nelson, as you yourself have just shown us. W: Miss Hurlbut, you are the latest among us to j C °me from college; you ought to be able to give us the j^ st w ord of science on this subject. What does psychology aRe to say about intelligence? Lss Hurlbut: As I remember, most psychologists ne intelligence as the ability to profit by trial and error. Miss N: That is as much as to say the ability to learn.

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