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loss. The question which had to be answered, therefore,
w as this: Is the success of psychological examinations
such as to justify the rejection of an appreciable number
°f applicants when applicants are very scarce?
Since it was necessary to answer this question without
delay, it was inadvisable to wait until complete production
records were available. Another method of checking
up the results had therefore to be resorted to. The
following method was finally adopted. Of the number
°f inspectors who had been examined, ninety-four had,
lor a variety of reasons, stopped work or been transferred
to other work. Now, whenever a girl leaves or is transferred
to some other shop, the foreman is required to make
° u t a leaving slip and to enter upon it the reason for the
girl’s leaving. In addition to this he is required to state
whether the girl has been a good worker or a poor worker,
a nd also whether or not he is willing to have her return.
These slips were secured, and a comparison was made
between the records of the girls in the tests and the opinlQ
n expressed by the foreman at the time of their leaving.
In order to bring out the results of this comparison the girls
Were first divided into two classes, those who met the standar
d set by the tests and those who fell below this standard.
Then each of these two classes was subdivided into three
groups, those described by the foreman as satisfactory,
those described as unsatisfactory, and those about whom
no opinion was expressed. The results were as follows:
Satis- Unsatis- No Total
factory factory Opinion
Above the standard. .. .34 1 3 2 67
Below the standard.... 1 17 9 2 7
Therefore, of twenty-seven girls below the standard who
"'Quid not have been hired if the results of the examination
