The mental limitations of the expert / by E.H. Hankin.

  • Ernest Hanbury Hankin
Date:
1921
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Credit: The mental limitations of the expert / by E.H. Hankin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INDEX Administrative Officials, rapid j decisions by, 21 Advertisement, injudicious, 61 Aerological laboratory, Agra, story of, 61 Agassiz, 83 American war organisers, 56 Ananta Krishna, 44 Annandale, 48 Aniline dye manufacture, 81 Arabic classics in education, 113 Armstrong, Sir William, 90 Atlantic cable, history of, 76, 86 Australian savages, 131 Avebury, Lord, 90 Babbage, story of, 29, 124 Ballantine, Mr. Sergeant, 34, 35 Baniyas, education of, ill, 129 Bankers, education of, 50 Beaconsfield, Lord, 66 Bessemer, 90 Biffen on grading wheat, 15 Bismarck, 41, 64 Business instinct,, 6, 10, 52 ,, ,, harmed by educa¬ tion, 50 Business instinct, in different races, .I3I Business instinct, lacking in educated Indians, 49, 113 Business man, on education, 46 Business men careers of, 7, 8 ,, ,, ignorance of, 6 ,, ,, memory of, 40 ,, ,, objecting to improve¬ ments, 64 Business men, rapid decisions of, 8 Cardigan, Lady, 18 Chemical Examiners, 71, 74 Chemist, commercial training of, 80 Chemist, education of, 81 Chinese classics in education, 115 Cholera in water supply, story of, 63 Civilians, Indian, 81 Classics in education, 46, 116 Commercial travellers, 64 Committees, 25 Common sense, 10 Confidence tricks, 93 Credit, refusing on instinctive feeling, . M Critical faculty of business men, 58 Cross examination, 28, 35 Diagnosis, rapid by doctors, 10 Edison, 51, 54, 73, 88 Edison’s definition of genius, 5 Education in mental arithmetic, 110, 129 Emigrants, lack of common sense in, 106 Engineering firms admitting men with university degrees, 51 Expert witness, 68 Experts employed by German banks, 83 Experts lacking business instinct, 41 ,, memory of, 38 ,, seeing a joke, 30 Fire-piston, 43 Forgery of currency notes, 95 Forgotten impressions stored in sub¬ conscious mind, 37 Forgetting, prelude to act of sub¬ conscious judgement, 26 Forgetting, use of, 38 Fortune-tellers, 13, 19 Franklin, Benjamin, 89, Gull, G. Ranger, on journalists, 28 Higinbotham, on intuition, 14 Home work for school children, 119 Huxley, 78, 101, 126 Hypnotism, 37 Inflected Languages, in educa¬ tion, 116 Ingenious ideas, intolerance of, 59 Initiative, due to subconscious mind, 52