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 6 EMPLOYMENT PSYCHOLOGY inability would not have been hired. To be sure, taking this point as the standard would have resulted in selecting a few who were destined to fail and rejecting a few who were destined to succeed. On the other hand, the large majority would have been selected correctly, and probably many more who had failed and left before this experiment began would have been rejected at the outset, and would never have been given the expensive trial which they received. If we look below the points of intersection of the curves, we shall see that the time represented is 56 seconds for test number two, 140 seconds for test number six, and 185 seconds for test number eight. These figures were taken as the maximum below which an applicant must come in order to be selected for the work of inspection. It is apparent that these figures are considerably higher than the average in the various tests, for the average is indicated by a point near the center of the larger curve. However, if the average times had been taken as the stand ard for selecting and rejecting, a large number of success ful inspectors who fell below the average in the tests would probably have been rejected. The standard finally se lected was such that the maximum number of applicants who were likely to succeed would be chosen and the maximum number of applicants who were likely to fail would be rejected. It must not be thought that this standard is absolutely rigid. In fact, one of the particular merits of such a standard and of psychological standards in general is flexibility. If two or more applicants fall within the stand ard or the maximum time set, the employer does not necessarily accept all of them but selects those whose time in the tests was farthest below the maximum. Thus,

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