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APPLYING  THE  RESULTS
At  the  time  of  this  writing  the  tests  found  significant
in  the  course  of  the  experiment  just  described  had  been
given  to  over  2,900  applicants  for  the  work  of  inspection.
Of  this  number  over  800  had  been  assigned  to  work
other  than  that  of  inspection.  These  facts  are  in  themselves ­
  some  testimony  as  to  the  practical  application
pf  the  results  of  the  experiment.  However,  this  chapter
ls  concerned  not  so  much  with  the  extent  to  which  the
tests  were  applied,  as  with  the  question  of  just  how  and
With  what  success  they  were  applied.  This  question  will
be  discussed  in  two  ways:  first,  by  showing  what  would
have  been  the  practical  advantages  had  the  inspectors
who  were  tested  in  the  course  of  the  first  experiment  been
tested  before  being  hired;  and  secondly,  how  and  with
^hat  success  the  tests  were  later  given  to  a  large  number
°f  new  applicants  who  came  into  the  employment  office
for  work
In  describing  what  would  have  been  the  advantages  if
the  tests  had  been  given  to  those  inspectors  who  were
examined  on  the  job,  we  shall  first  consider  in  detail  some
individual  cases.  One  of  the  conspicuous  instances  of  the
Practical  significance  of  the  tests  was  the  case  of  an  inspector ­
  who  was  examined  at  the  particular  request  of  her
foreman.  The  foreman  remarked,  at  the  time,  that  she
one  of  his  best  girls.  With  this  unsolicited  bias  in
tornd,  the  experimenter  was  not  surprised  to  find  that  the
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