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Specification, for clerical work, 
109; hiring by, ill 
Spelling test, 90 
Stenographers, typists, and comp- 
tometrists, Chap. VIII, 88, 93, 
177 
Stenquist test, 72, 124 
Stop watch, 159 
Substitution test, 91 
Suggestion, powers of, 207; in 
questions, 220 
Survey of clerical work, 105 
Technique of giving tests, Chap. 
XIV, 154 
Testing men assemblers, Chap. 
VI, 69; to specification, Chap. 
IX, 103; which discovers po 
tential skill, 350 
Tests, psychological, 3; mental, 
17; extensive application of, 
19; testing, 20; trying out, 24; 
manual dexterity, 56; spatial 
perception, 57; Stenquist, 72; 
clerical, 79; typist, 90; stenog 
raphers, 93; comptometrists, 
94; filing, 108; relative value of, 
no; cube, 124; form-board, 
124, 152; Binet-Simon, 134; 
part whole relations, 140, 147; 
naming opposites, 141; verb 
object, 141; adjective noun, 
141; context, 142, 146; com 
pletion, 142; verbal, 144; tool 
list, 148; vocabulary, 149; lit 
eracy, 150; correcting, 158; 
recording, 159; giving a series 
of, 161; trade, Chap. XVIII, 
215; blue prints, 227; periodic, 
279 
Trade tests, Chap. XVIII, 215; 
preliminary trials, 228 
Training course, 204 
Transcription, 93 
Transfers, 179, 358 
Turnover among machine oper 
ators, 112 
Types of work tested, 188 
Typists, 89 
Unreliability of personal judg 
ments, 39, 43, 233 
Value of observation, 235, 242 
Variability of interviewers, 14, 
16 
Vestibule schools, Chap. XXI, 
270; definition of, 273; pur 
pose, 273; office, 275; teachers 
for, 280; factory, 282; kinds, 
282; centralized, 283; services 
of, 288 
Vocational value of tests, Chap. 
XV, 171 
Weakness of old method of 
employing, 14