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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rr rN ON MEASURES but we shall never be able by such means to discover the relation of value existing between them. We shall never extort from them a sin- gle fact with which we were before unac- quainted. What then is it possible to do in the way of measuring value? What kind of measure- ment is intended, when the term is so frequently employed? All that is practicable appears to be simply this : if I know the value of A in rela- tion to B, and the value of B in relation to c, 1 can tell the value of A and c¢ in relation to each other, and consequently their comparative power in purchasing all other commodities. This is an operation obviously bearing no resemblance at all to the process of measuring length. There is no unknown fact discovered by a physical operation: itis in truth a calculation from cer- tain data, a mere question in arithmetic. It is not, let it be observed, what on a first glance it may appear, like ascertaining the compara- tive length of two pieces of timber which can- not be brought into juxta-position, by means of a foot rule or other instrument which we apply

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