Employment psychology

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Identifikator:: 1028407564

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-47263

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Link, Henry Charles; Thorndike, Edward L. http://d-nb.info/gnd/118802127

Title:: Employment psychology

Place of publication:: New York

Publisher:: MacMillan

Year of publication:: 1924

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (XII, 440 Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2018

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part I. Psychological tests

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STENOGRAPHERS, TYPISTS, AND COMPTOMETRISTS 9I yho had never studied French would have great difficulty 111 copying correctly a paragraph in French and it would undoubtedly take him a long time to do it. It takes us uiuch longer to copy a word which is new to us or which have seen only a few times than to copy one with which We are familiar. To be sure, the ability to spell is not as e ssential to the copyist as it is to the stenographer, because the stenographer must rely almost entirely on her memory |° r the spelling of the words she takes down. Neverthe- f ss , the lack of this ability will greatly increase the typist’s lability to error and very markedly decrease her speed as a . Co pyist. Moreover, in the case of dictaphone typists, spelling 3s even more important than it is in the case of stenographers. For whereas the latter has an opportunity to look up doubtful words in the dictionary without hold- ln g up her machine, the dictaphone typist must bring er dictaphone to a stop before she can look up the neces- sary word, and when she resumes, must frequently set * e dictaphone back so as to recover the sense of what sue is writing. It frequently happens that the applicant as only recently learned how to type and is therefore ji°t yet proficient. It is very essential to distinguish e tween a typist who is not proficient because of inex perience but who promises to become proficient, and one ao is naturally inept and is not likely ever to become Ver y proficient. The spelling test is one means of dis covering this fact; for a candidate who is a poor speller as an initial handicap which will greatly retard her Progress. Another test, chosen largely for this purpose, is the stitution test. Other experimenters have already es- ushed the connection between ability in this test and act ual or potential ability in typing. If an applicant sub

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