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

  • Charles Samuel Myers
Date:
1926
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    have proved of the greatest value in actual practice. No doubt in their present stage individual cases of hard¬ ness occur, but that must happen under any system of examination. They afford on the whole a satisfactory rating of the intelligence of the individual — certainly a more satisfactory method than any other we possess; and they indicate the maximum and minimum require¬ ments of intelligence demanded for success in different occupations (we know now that too much intelligence may be as great an obstacle to success in a given occupa¬ tion as too little). They have proved of the greatest assistance both in vocational guidance and in vocational selection, and the success of their further developments may confidently be regarded as assured. REFERENCES B. J. Psych,, 1922, xiii, 157—84. B. Muscio. ‘Motor Capacity with special reference to Vocational Guidance/ Ibid., 1923, xiii, 344—69. B. Muscio and S. C. M. Sowton. ‘Vocational Tests and Typewriting/ Ibid., 1924, xiv, 229—35. Godfrey Thomson. ‘The Nature of General Intelligence and Ability/ Ibid., 1924, xiv, 336-52. C. Burt. ‘The Principles of Vocational Guidance/ J.N.I.I.P., ii, 333—7. F. Gaw. ‘The Use of Perform¬ ance Tests and Mechanical Tests in Vocational Guidance/
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