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

GENERAL INTELLIGENCE I3£ frost important, however. It is supposed to be worth about forty per cent of the total. Mr. L: My son would probably get a pretty low mark in that test. Miss N: And quite likely in the whole series, because there are very few arithmetical tests in the Binet-Simon intelligence scale. Mr. W: Are these tests supposed to be for general intelligence? Miss H: Yes. There are a great many little tests and the total average gives the general intelligence or intel lectual age level of a person. Mr. W: But isn’t that what we have just been talking a bout? Mr. Lambert says that he is not looking for general intelligence in the employment office but for specific ability like that of a toolmaker, or accountant, or en gineer. Mr. L: Oh, I don’t mean to say that we don’t want general intelligence. I believe that general intelligence is a g°od thing. But usually we have to be contented with s °tne one who is not so intelligent in a general way but ^ote so in his own line. This is an age of specialization, you say, and we are only too glad if we can get men who know their own specialty and know it well. . Mr. W: It seems to me that this matter of general intelligence is largely a matter of education and depends opon the amount of schooling a man has had. Mr. L: Yes, and we have many a workman who is an e Rpert in his line who hasn’t had a grammar-school educa- J- l0n and who would make a pretty poor showing in general intelligence. Miss N: What finally convinced me that we, in our ° Wn psychological work, were on the wrong track in this

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