Identifier: cu31924001411408 (find matches)
Title: Choosing employees by mental and physical tests
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Kemble, William Fretz, 1874-
Subjects: Employees Ability Characters and characteristics Psychophysiology Industrial efficiency
Publisher: New York, The Engineering magazine company
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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positively or negatively—not quantita-tively. By this we mean that while we may be able, bylooking into a mans face, to tell positively or nega-tively whether he has the intelligence to be a mathe-matician, we cannot thus tell how good a mathematic-ian he is; only a test of some problems will reveal hisexact relative ability in rating with other men of hiskind. We may tell by looking at a man if he has me-chanical ability or not, but only a test, either by cross-examination or on a machine, will rank him in abilityas compared to other machinists. If he knows thedepth, speed, and angle of cut or tool to shape a certainmachine part, we have some definite data by which torate him. The third limitation consists, as Mr. Har-rington Emerson says, in the characteristics of the job.We may be able by wonderful intuitions and trainingto size up the man, but this gives us few data as towhether he may be fitted for a certain job. This latterhas to be analyzed by the law of extremes, as formerly
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MENTAL AND PHYSICAL TRAITS 179 outlined, or by a man of wonderful analytical powerwho knows the job. We are now concerned with the capacity of anemployee and not with our ability to read him; but asthis latter naturally comes up at this point, we willtreat it here. The ability of a person to read char-acter from facial shape and delineations can be veryclosely estimated. On page 178, opposite, are shownthe front and side faces of five people. In the diagramjust below will be found ten characteristics, each pos-sessed by one or more of these people, with entryblanks opposite the numbers corresponding to each in-dividual. In the actual test photographs of ten peopleare used. The subject being tested for ability to readcharacter looks at the faces and fills in these blanksaccording to the following directions taken from ourtests of the Emerson Company: Kindly look at the photographs herewith. They are num-bered from 1 to 10, those having the same number being thefront and side views of t

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