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 99 These rankings were then submitted to the official who had previously ranked his workers in the same way, but according to his own opinion of their comparative abili- tles as comptometrists. The agreement between the two Was very close. The rankings based on the tests in comp- tometry alone coincided with those given by the official 111 every respect. On the basis of the tests other than the comptometer tests, there were two disagreements, both Ver y slight. It appeared that one of these operators was new and comparatively inexperienced and, although not quite as good as some of the others on the machine, gave indications, by her good work in the other tests, that she would soon surpass some of the other girls who had een ranked above her. The department head agreed Aat this was his opinion also, but said that he had ranked . ae gml low because he was using as a criterion only ability 1Tl comptometry, without regard to mental ability or po tentiality. The other operator who had been ranked ni gher by him than on the basis of the tests was a very old a nd experienced hand who had won her rank through con- 111Ue d practice in the same kind of work, but who was ^knitted to be not as versatile or as capable as some newer § lr ls ranked beneath her. The important fact about this group of tests, from the employment point of view, is fta t the instantaneous verdict made possible by them was f u bstantially the same as that rendered by the official ln charge of the group after he had known the individuals teste d for weeks, months, and even years. As a re- °f this experiment, the official who had been skep- before made a written statement in which he tical ^pressed himself as entirely convinced that these tests ^ere reliable. ... The above incident is related largely as an illustration

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