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

STENOGRAPHERS, TYPISTS, AND COMPTOMETRISTS IOI there is Miss . I know her personally, and I know her work, and I am sure that she is a very inferior "Worker, and yet, according to your tests, she is above Miss This more or less imaginary criticism is typical of the power which isolated and personally known cases have over the minds of certain individuals, and which is one of the greatest obstacles which the psychologist has to over- c °me. The difficulty will remain, not only in the psycho- lo gical field but in all fields until people are educated suffi ciently so that they can weigh the value of an investigation ° r a problem, not by one or two isolated points which happen to stick out most vividly in their minds but by Weighing and comparing all the points present in the situa- tlo n. It is not the intention here to minimize the im portance of the dramatic instance, or the particular case, individual instances are, in the last analysis, the funda mental facts upon which scientific laws and generalizations lest - However, people will not be able properly to place the v alue of individual instances until they become statistically minded; that is, until they are able to see facts in the light Percentages, proportions, curves of frequency and dis tribution, and until they are sufficiently at home in this md of thinking so that their entire train of thought will n °t be thrown out of gear when an isolated instance comes . ° n g> or an exception with which they are personally mmili ar> The little experiment related above was a more fair at 1 tem pt than usual on the part of a layman to obtain a e lable basis upon which to estimate the value of the test s for his work. The official in question chose twelve Cases upon which to base his opinion. However, from the Psychologist’s point of view, even twelve cases are not

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