Agricultural relief: Export debenture plan

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Identifikator:: 1831932415

Document type:: Multivolume work

Title:: Agricultural relief

Place of publication:: Washington

Publisher:: Gov. Pr. Off.

Year of publication:: 1928

Collection:: Economics Books

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Identifikator:: 1831934671

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-232129

Document type:: Volume

Title:: Export debenture plan

Volume count:: Pt. 5

Place of publication:: Washington

Publisher:: Gov. Pr. Off.

Year of publication:: 1928

Scope:: III S., S. 299 - 427

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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APPLYING THE RESULTS 51 this: Of all the girls who had been hired as inspectors, those who survived as successful inspectors were the girls who had been above the standard set in the tests. To be specific, thirty-seven out of the forty-three were producing from fifty to seventy pounds an hour, and of this number a h but two had been chosen on the basis of the tests. Six were producing less than fifty pounds an hour, and Were therefore failures judged by the standards of the s hop, and every one of these six was decidedly below the standard set by the tests and would not have been hired fr the results of the examination had been observed. In other words, out of a group of thirty-nine successful in spectors, all engaged on the very same kind of work for a fair period of time, ninety-four per cent were above the standard set by the psychological examination. This does not mean, necessarily, that the inspectors chosen on the basis of the tests were successful in ninety- four per cent of the cases. There is always a goodly num- ber of workers who pass the examination but who do not succeed at the work for which they are passed, and there an endless number of reasons why this should be so. <or example, the new employee may not like the work, or rna y not be satisfied with the pay, or may be displeased With her surroundings, or may become ill or move out of to Wn. Any one of these reasons may cause her failure as ab inspector, even though her performance in the tests snows that she could succeed if the proper incentive were Present. What the comparison shows is that among all nose who tried inspection, only those, on the whole, who Passed the psychological examination were a final success. Finally^ what were the results of these tests in so far as ney affected the labor turnover? Taking as a basis again e ninety-four inspectors who had left and whose term of

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