Industrial psychology in Great Britain / by Charles S. Myers.

  • Charles Samuel Myers
Date:
1926
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Credit: Industrial psychology in Great Britain / by Charles S. Myers. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    linguistic and performance tests may afford valuable indications for a decision as to his fitness for ‘practical’ or ‘intellectual’ work. These divergent results of comparing the general intelligence of the same set of individuals as estimated now by linguistic, now by performance tests, at first sight support the popular view that there is more than one kind of intelligence — a literary intelligence, a motor intelligence, a mathematical intelligence, etc. It might be thought that each intelligence requires appro¬ priate tests to elicit it, and that the unsuitability of the tests used may be in part responsible for the apparent lack of growth of intelligence after puberty has been attained. But it is still open for those who believe in a single factor to aver that its manifestation is different in different subjects owing to their different endowments with different — literary, motor, mathematical, philo¬ sophical — abilities which make use of it. It may well be that both the upholders of a general factor and the upholders of special factors of intelligence are right, and that each side is only wrong in denying the truth of his opponent’s contention. On general grounds it seems probable that there is a specific factor of intelligence in each ‘species’ of intelligent operation, that there is also a group factor in each ‘genus’ of intelligent operation, and that over all there is a general factor of intelligence peculiar to the individual’s ‘self’ for every kind of intelligent operation. However this may be, the intelligence tests now in use
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