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

Collection:: Economics Books

9 8 EMPLOYMENT PSYCHOLOGY letter and number-substitution test bears to typists and stenographers. It has been found that this test correlates very well with the subsequent ability of operators who are not expert at the time when the tests are given. The so- called general-intelligence tests which have been applied to comptometer operators thus far have not shown any marked correlation with their ability as operators. Since the work on which these operators are engaged requires intelligence of a peculiar kind this is not surprising. After tests had been given to applicants for comptom- etry for several months, the value of the tests had won the recognition of most of those concerned. A certain official, however, head of the largest group of operators, remained skeptical and would not admit that the tests had been suc cessful in selecting operators for his group. In order to convince him and also for the sake of making further im provements in the tests themselves, this official was asked to allow an experiment to be conducted with some of the members of his group. He consented to the proposition upon two conditions: First, he was to be permitted to select the girls to be tested; and secondly, he was to keep the standing of these girls unknown to the experimenters until the latter had completed their ranking of the girls according to the tests and were prepared to submit these rankings to him in written form. These conditions were naturally acceptable, since it is situations of exactly this kind that employment tests are calculated to meet. This official then selected twelve girls for the experiment, and the comptometry tests discussed here and given in the Appendix were given to them group-wise. When the re sults were complete, the twelve girls were arranged in one, two, three order. This was done both for each test in dividually and on the basis of the tests taken collectively.

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