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

4 o EMPLOYMENT PSYCHOLOGY girl did very well in the tests. While she was going through them, the experimenter noted down the usual remarks which he was in the habit of passing on each sub ject in his capacity of an observer rather than an experi menter. In this case they were as follows: General intelligence A Rhythm A Attention A Physique Slender, healthy Personal appearance ..Neat, attractive Remarks Capable looking, ambitious, clean movements. However, when this girl came to the number group check ing test (8 in the Appendix), she began it so poorly that it seemed as if she had mistaken the instructions; and so, taking the paper away from her, the experimenter repeated them. “I understood you the first time,” she answered pleasantly, and then proceeded to do the test in 204.4 seconds, which was 19.4 seconds slower (including mis takes) than the maximum time set for this test. This puzzled the experimenter and so he inquired further from the foreman as to the success of this girl. It thereupon developed that, although she was a very steady and con scientious worker, and of more than average intelligence and willingness, she had been working for over six weeks and had not yet reached the stage usually reached by successful girls in one or two weeks. She was still on day work, and her inability to make piece-work puzzled not only herself but the foreman as well. In this instance, therefore, when all other signs pointed conclusively to ward a successful inspector, this test—the test which had shown the highest correlation, it will be remembered— showed conclusively that; she lacked the very qualification

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