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 II. Trade tests and other applications of employment psychology

Collection:: Economics Books

THE OBSERVATIONAL METHOD 233 is necessarily very brief, and permits only the most super ficial observation. During the course of some of the experiments described, it was the practice of the experimenter to note, on one side of the record card, his personal impressions of the subject being examined. These observations, as already described in Chapter III, were recorded under the follow ing heads: General Intelligence Attention Rhythm Personal Appearance Physique The object of this practice was to find out by means of a later comparison how well the estimates based upon mere observation tallied with the actual production records and also with the records in the tests. At the end of the first experiment, this comparison showed a fair if not a re markable agreement with the more reliable production records. The experimenter, who had had considerable experience in selecting people by means of mere observa tion and who had a certain degree of confidence in his ability as a judge, was naturally pleased by this agree ment. However, upon comparing his estimates of in spectors with his estimates of gaugers, he found, to his surprise, that they were almost alike. In short, he had estimated the girls in one group as good, poor, and indif ferent, and had estimated the girls in the other group in the same way. But there was nothing in his estimates which made it possible to separate the successful gaugers from the successful inspectors, although nearly all of the gaugers were girls who had first tried inspection and had failed.

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