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this: Of all the girls who had been hired as inspectors,
those who survived as successful inspectors were the girls
who had been above the standard set in the tests. To be
specific, thirty-seven out of the forty-three were producing
from fifty to seventy pounds an hour, and of this number
a h but two had been chosen on the basis of the tests.
Six were producing less than fifty pounds an hour, and
Were therefore failures judged by the standards of the
s hop, and every one of these six was decidedly below the
standard set by the tests and would not have been hired
fr the results of the examination had been observed. In
other words, out of a group of thirty-nine successful inspectors,
all engaged on the very same kind of work for a
fair period of time, ninety-four per cent were above the
standard set by the psychological examination.
This does not mean, necessarily, that the inspectors
chosen on the basis of the tests were successful in ninetyfour
per cent of the cases. There is always a goodly number
of workers who pass the examination but who do not
succeed at the work for which they are passed, and there
an endless number of reasons why this should be so.
<or example, the new employee may not like the work, or
rna y not be satisfied with the pay, or may be displeased
With her surroundings, or may become ill or move out of
to Wn. Any one of these reasons may cause her failure as
ab inspector, even though her performance in the tests
snows that she could succeed if the proper incentive were
Present. What the comparison shows is that among all
nose who tried inspection, only those, on the whole, who
Passed the psychological examination were a final success.
Finally^ what were the results of these tests in so far as
ney affected the labor turnover? Taking as a basis again
e ninety-four inspectors who had left and whose term of
