GENERAL INTELLIGENCE 
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Mr. W: Well, I confess that I had something of the 
same opinion from the beginning; but I wanted to find out 
specially what you, as a practical employment man, and 
our more inexperienced and, as we thought, more theoret- 
lc al, psychologists thought about the subject. I expected 
to find some disagreement between the two viewpoints 
but I was very pleasantly surprised. We began this dis 
cussion by saying that the one most important fact about 
an applicant was his intelligence, and we defined intelli 
gence in general as the ability to learn. All the other 
definitions seemed to boil down to that. But now we seem 
have agreed that there is no such thing as general 
intelligence, and that, if there were, it would be of little use 
to us in employment work because we are interested in 
s pecific abilities or kinds of intelligence and not in degrees 
intelligence per se. Is that a fair statement of the argu 
ment? 
Mr. L: Yes, it suits me. 
Mr. W: In that case I can only repeat the sentiment 
Much you attributed to me a few minutes ago, Mr. Lam- 
er t. This is certainly an age of specialization. 
Miss N: Yes, Mr. Williams; and that is just the point.