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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EMPLOYMENT PSYCHOLOGY I36 matter of general intelligence were the results of some of our occupational and trade tests. When we began giving these tests we believed in general intelligence and we used to include so-called intelligence tests. However, we soon found out that our idea of intelligence and the kind of intelligence required by a certain job did not agree at all. And in all of our tests, we found that some people did specially well in one kind of test while others did well in another kind. Mr. L: Well, that agrees with my experience. As I just said, we in the employment work have to hire people on the basis of their ability in one particular line. We can’t expect them to be generally intelligent. Mr. W: But how about imbeciles and idiots, Mr. Lam bert? Certainly you could weed them out by means of an intelligence scale. Mr. L: Miss Nelson and Miss Hurlbut can tell you more about that than I because they have been giving tests for that very purpose. Miss N: Yes, we used to think it very important to eliminate people of that kind and we gave tests with that in mind. But out of over six thousand applicants we have tested in the last year, only three were morons, as they are called; and as it takes from an hour to an hour and a half to give only a part of the intelligence-scale tests, we soon gave up using them. It is possible to detect morons roughly by almost any test, and especially by means of the directions which go with the test. If the ordinary tests prove too much for them we can make use of the in telligence scale. Mr. W: What became of the morons you found? Miss N: We assigned them to some simple machine work and they turned out to be excellent operators. They

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