Die Volkswirthschaftslehre

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Identifikator:: 833000799

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-36018

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Schober, Hugo

Title:: Die Volkswirthschaftslehre

Edition:: 3. Aufl.

Place of publication:: Kiel

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (X, 391 S)

Collection:: Economics Books

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THE SCOPE OF PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS 209 select tests which are appropriate; (2) a preliminary ex periment with a large group of workers engaged in the same kind of work in order to determine the value of the tests selected and the standards which shall be used; (3) an objective or impersonal measure of the work done by the members of the group in order to provide a reliable and accurate basis upon which to compare both the in dividuals and their performances in the tests. The diffi culty of meeting these three conditions makes it impossible to apply tests intelligently to executives in the higher and more specialized positions. However, there is a vast and ever growing field where these conditions exist and ■where tests may therefore be readily applied, and some indications of the scope of this field have been given in the previous chapters. With regard to the qualitative scope of tests, or their degree of reliability, it has been seen that their chief value lies in detecting the innate or acquired mental ability of the individual. Tests do not reveal the moral qualities and in this sense their value is limited. But even with this limitation, they make it possible to select the man who is most likely to possess them. For, as has been seen, the moral traits are relative, and depend in large measure upon the ability of an individual to make good; and this ability does come within the scope of tests to determine. Finally, the knowledge which tests can give us about the abilities of individuals offers, for the first time, a scientific or objective basis upon which to use the powerful stimulus of suggestion. By the use of suggestion, much can be done to arouse and to create the moral qualities which are de sirable in a worker and which will make the worker not only more valuable to the industry but to himself.

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