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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SELECTING GIRLS AS ASSEMBLERS 59 ■well in the tests were doing excellent work as assemblers a nd were making over three dollars a day. “They are far better than some boys we tried on that work before,” remarked the foreman, “and all but one of them stands U P to her work.” The standing of the girls in the test for the perception of odd shapes and sizes and their standing in the opinions °f their superiors agreed in every case but two. Ex pressed in terms of correlation, the agreement was plus •l' 1 - In the other tests the agreement was not so marked, but nevertheless there was a positive and significant cor respondence. The correlation for the combined manual dexterity tests was .52, while that for the hand dyna mometer was .34. The impersonal but nevertheless easily interpreted re sults of these tests may be illustrated by the following in stances: One girl’s record in the test for the perception of °dd shapes and sizes showed that she had been very slow an d made frequent mistakes. On her record card this showed simply as 5? 51587—4 (meaning test number fifty- ooo, done in eighty-seven seconds with four mistakes), the writer, although he had not given these tests and knew nothing about the girls in question, remarked to the foreman: This girl’s record shows that she had a very poor idea °f where the parts belonged.” "That’s exactly how her work was,” quickly responded the foreman. Hut on the basis of these tests,”—indicating the girl’s mcord in the tests for manual dexterity— “ she seems to had pretty nimble fingers.” Yes,” countered the foreman, “but her mind wasn’t aj fast as her hands.”

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