Agricultural relief: Agricultural relief

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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:: 1831935244

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-232156

Document type:: Volume

Title:: Agricultural relief

Volume count:: Pt. 8

Place of publication:: Washington

Publisher:: Gov. Pr. Off.

Year of publication:: 1928

Scope:: III S., S. 591 - 642

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Statement of hon. Tom D. McKeown, representative in Congress from the State of Oklahoma

Collection:: Economics Books

240 EMPLOYMENT PSYCHOLOGY of method, attempts have been made to transform it into a reliable and scientific method of character analysis. In fact, there has been no hesitation on the part of those making this attempt to dignify their method by calling it a science. This so-called science has received wide publicity and has been accepted by many prominent and hard-headed business men. It attempts to place observa tion on a scientific basis by assuming that certain ob servable physical characteristics are identified with certain definite mental qualities, and by asserting as a corollary that a visual observation and measurement of the physical characteristics enable the observer to gauge a person’s mental, moral, and emotional qualities. The smattering of scientific phraseology in the presentation of this method is just sufficient to impress those who have only a super ficial knowledge of the scientific facts involved. For in stance, one of the statements made is that scientists have proved that a large head indicates a large brain and conse quently a capable mind. Now, as a matter of fact, scientists have worked over this point for fifty years or more without reaching such a conclusion. After having measured thousands of heads and investigated thousands of cases, their general conclusion is that, although there may be a general agreement between size of the skull and intellectual ability, the agreement is too indefinite to apply to individual cases or to use as a basis for practical predictions. (For a short and comprehensive account and bibliography on this point, see G. M. Whipple, “ Manual of Mental and Physical Tests”, Vol. I, pp. 79-91.) On the other hand, biologists and physiologists tell us that mental power is determined not so much by the size of the bead or the expansion of the brain, as by the convolutions and the quality of the brain structure. Another claim advanced is

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