The mental survey / by Rudolf Pintner.

  • Rudolf Pintner
Date:
1918
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Credit: The mental survey / by Rudolf Pintner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ever rough this may be, cannot but be a distinct as- set to a social survey. For the present it would appear that we must estimate the mentality of a community from the mentality of its school popula- i tion. That the mentality of the children in school | will correspond closely to the mentality of the com- munity as a whole is a justifiable inference. Hav- ing obtained in this way a rough measure of the mentality of a community, it is bound to be of de- cided help in interpreting the conditions brought to light by the social survey. So far as the writer knows this has not yet been attempted.2 These three uses to which survey tests may be put, namely, in the institution, the school and the community, indicate a very wide field for this type of test if it proves to be at all feasible. The very na- ture of the work prescribes the type of test and the method of application. The individual scale with its long series of tests is at once seen to be imprac- ticable. Survey tests must be such as can be given to large groups at the same time and this neces- sarily involves writing on the part of the subject in 2 An example of how this may be done has been indicated by the writer in a rough test of a small village community. Pintner, R., “A Mental Survey of the School Population of a Village,” School and Society, Vol. V (May 10, 1017), 507-600. See also, Paterson, D. G., “A Mental Survey of the School Population of a Kansas Town,” School and Society, Vol. VII (Jan. 10, 1018), 84-80.
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