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frost  important,  however.  It  is  supposed  to  be  worth
about  forty  per  cent  of  the  total.
Mr.  L:  My  son  would  probably  get  a  pretty  low  mark
in  that  test.
Miss  N:  And  quite  likely  in  the  whole  series,  because
there  are  very  few  arithmetical  tests  in  the  Binet-Simon
intelligence  scale.
Mr.  W:  Are  these  tests  supposed  to  be  for  general
intelligence?
Miss  H:  Yes.  There  are  a  great  many  little  tests  and
the  total  average  gives  the  general  intelligence  or  intellectual ­
  age  level  of  a  person.
Mr.  W:  But  isn’t  that  what  we  have  just  been  talking
a bout?  Mr.  Lambert  says  that  he  is  not  looking  for
general  intelligence  in  the  employment  office  but  for
specific  ability  like  that  of  a  toolmaker,  or  accountant,  or
en gineer.
Mr.  L:  Oh,  I  don’t  mean  to  say  that  we  don’t  want
general  intelligence.  I  believe  that  general  intelligence  is  a
g°od  thing.  But  usually  we  have  to  be  contented  with
s °tne  one  who  is  not  so  intelligent  in  a  general  way  but
^ote  so  in  his  own  line.  This  is  an  age  of  specialization,
you  say,  and  we  are  only  too  glad  if  we  can  get  men  who
know  their  own  specialty  and  know  it  well.
.  Mr.  W:  It  seems  to  me  that  this  matter  of  general
intelligence  is  largely  a  matter  of  education  and  depends
opon  the  amount  of  schooling  a  man  has  had.
Mr.  L:  Yes,  and  we  have  many  a  workman  who  is  an
e Rpert  in  his  line  who  hasn’t  had  a  grammar-school  educa-J-
 l0n  and  who  would  make  a  pretty  poor  showing  in  general
intelligence.
Miss  N:  What  finally  convinced  me  that  we,  in  our
° Wn  psychological  work,  were  on  the  wrong  track  in  this