Procedures in employment psychology

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Identifikator:: 173623112X

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-112923

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Author:: Bingham, Walter Van Dyke http://d-nb.info/gnd/123042593; Freyd, Max

Title:: Procedures in employment psychology

Place of publication:: Chicago & New York

Publisher:: Shaw

Year of publication:: 1926

Scope:: XI, 269 S

Digitisation:: 2020

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: III. Criteria of vocational success

Collection:: Economics Books

CRITERIA OF VOCATIONAL SUCCESS 43 of them should not be combined or averaged. The series of measures will have to be adjusted before averaging in order to avoid giving undue weight to any one of the criteria. The investigator may weight each of the contributing cri- teria in accordance with its importance as he judges it. Statistical precautions to be borne in mind are discussed in Chapter XVII. A test may predict one sort of vocational accomplish- ment and not another. Hence, when more than one cri- terion is available, the better procedure is to correlate the tests with each of the several criteria independently. If the criteria are themselves not closely related, the probability of finding a high correlation between a test and a criterion is increased. If several criteria are used independently it will be necessary to make for each of them a list of essential abilities before constructing tests. The care demanded in the choice of a criterion of success is well demonstrated in Snow’s study of tests for the selec- tion of taxicab chauffeurs (170). His problem was to cut down the number of accidents by devising tests that would predict relative freedom from accidents. So he turned to the accident record for his criterion. He found that acci- dents could be classified according to the following types: 1. A type due to recklessness. (In this article we distinguish between carelessness and recklessness. Carelessness is a general word; it implies a lack of care for one reason or another, such as driving without the brakes in proper condition. But recklessness connotes a more or less deliberate lack of care. It is the type of behavior for which we tend to say there is no excuse.) The reck- less accident is one such as is caused by speeding, passing traffic lights, or running on the left side of the street. 2. A type due to carelessness. This is one which results, for example, when the driver goes out with a car which has a faulty steering apparatus or too much play in the wheels. He does not do so deliberately, but merely does not take the pains to learn the condition of his car. 3. A type due to emotional instability. This is the type of accident in which another car suddenly careens around the corner. The driver could avoid an accident by immediately applying the 3% x

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