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AN EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF THE SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE TEST IN RELATION TO GENERAL INTELLIGENCE AND EMPLOYMENT SUCCESS PREDICTION
A Project Presented to the Faculty of the School of Education The University of Southern California
In Partial Fulfillment ?*v
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by Thomas Cornelius Keedy, Jr. August 1950
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TABLE OP CONTENTS CHAPTER I.
PAGE
PROBLEMS AND P R O C E D U R E S ........................ The p r o b l e m ..................................
2
Statement of the problem ...................
2
Importance of the problem
.................
3
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4
General intelligence .......................
4
Social intelligence
4
Definitions of terms used
.......................
Employment success ..........................
4
Limitations of study ..........................
4
Scope of problem
.....................
Weaknesses of the investigation
II.
III.
4
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5
Organization by chapters .....................
6
REVIEW OP THE L I T E R A T U R E .......................
7
S u m m a r y ......................................
25
METHODOLOGY USED IN THE E X P E R I M E N T .............
26
Selection of the p o p u l a t i o n .................
27
Description of the p o p u l a t i o n ...............
27
Employment success evaluation questionnaire
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.
Intelligence t e s t ............................
32
Social intelligence test .....................
33
Administration of tests
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S u m m a r y ....................................... IV.
1
RESULTS OF THE I N V E S T I G A T I O N ...................
35 36
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CHAPTER
PAGE Intelligence test r e s u l t s ............
36
Social intelligence test results
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Employment success evaluation questionnaire V.
.
SUMMARY AND C O N C L U S I O N S ....................
42 46
Summary and results of the investigation . . . General summary
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T e s t i n g ................................. Statistical methods
46 46
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47
Analysis of r e s u l t s .................... Conclusions and recommendations
47
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48
B I B L I O G R A P H Y .......................................
52
A P P E N D I X E S ..........................................
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Appendix A.
Employment success evaluation questionnaire
54
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Appendix B.
Otis Employment Tests 2A* Test 2-Form A
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Appendix C.
Social Intelligence Test
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Appendix D.
Manuals for directions for social
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intelligence and intelligence tests
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LIST OF TABLES TABLE I.
PAGE Intelligence test scores for population showing the standard deviation and population for each s u b - g r o u p ...............
II.
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Number of men evaluated and mean score of questionnaires evaluated by each s u p e r v i s o r ....................................
III.
Means and standard deviations of scores on social intelligence and intelligence tests . .
IV.
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Coefficient of correlation of ungrouped scores of social intelligence and intelligence t e s t s .........................................
V.
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Means and standard deviations of scores of social intelligence test and employment .success e v a l u a t i o n ............................
VI.
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Coefficient of correlation of ungrouped scores of social Intelligence and employment success evaluation
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CHAPTER I PROBLEMS AND PROCEDURES Today In industry, in the armed forces, in the school system, and in fact in practically every sort of organization which must employ the services of fairly large numbers of men, there exists more than ever before a great need to be able to make adequate personnel selections.
One
major contributing factor of this situation is the increasing cost of labor and the subsequent Increased costs of training men to hold specialized positions. The organizations recognizing this increased personnel selection need have in part turned to the use of various types of psychological tests to assist in the solving of their problem. The basic assumption of all personnel testing programs is that the test or battery of tests will be able to predict employment success more accurately and more quickly than a subjective supervisor’s evaluation.
The
technique which is usually followed in the setting up of a personnel testing program is first, the testing of numbers of employees who are considered to be successful in a given position; second, the comparison of the test results of new men wishing employment to those in similar positions; and
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third, the drawing of subsequent predictive conclusions regarding the future success of those men in those or similar positions.
I.
THE PROBLEM
Statement of the problem.
The purpose of this study
is to determine the relationship of the Social Intelligence Test to general intelligence and employment success evaluation for the purpose of finding the nature and predictive value of the Social Intelligence Test.
To
determine the answer to this problem, a group of one hundred and fifty-seven men to whom an intelligence test and a Social Intelligence Test had been given was selected.
Questionnaires
were sent to the immediate supervisors of the men selected for an employment success evaluation.
One hundred and
fourteen of the questionnaires from the group of one hundred and fifty-seven were returned. The Social Intelligence Test scores were used to determine the social intelligence of the group of one hundred and fifty-seven men.-1-
1 P. A. Moss, T. Hunt, and K. T. Omwake, Social Intelligence Test, Revised Form, First Edition, (George Washington University, Washington, D. C.: Center for Psychological Service, 1930).
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Otis Employment Tests 2 A , Test _2— Form A scores were
used to determine the general mental ability or general
intelligence of the group of one hundred and fifty-seven m e n .2 To determine the employment success of the group, a questionnaire was constructed.
The conclusions drawn were
determined by the relationships of the results. Importance of the problem.
Several investigations of
a somewhat similar nature have been made using the Social Intelligence Test, but the results are not too conclusive. Itis felt that ability to predict
employment success
and social intelligence toa high degree of accuracy
is one
of the most important problems facing personnel bureaus today. It would be of great value to school administrators, to office managers, and other employers to know whether or not a prospective employee has the desired level of social insight, is able to cooperate with fellow workers, and is able to deal with people in general on an adequate level.
A,
2 A. S. Otis, Otis Employment Tests 2A, Test 2— Form (Yonkers-on-Hudson, New York: World Book Company, 19^3)•
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II. 1•
DEFINITIONS OF TERMS USED
General Intelligence.
degree of plasticity.
The power to learn, or
The power to solve problems.
The
capacity to develop skills in abstract thinking.^ 2. that
Social Intelligence.
The combined attributes
an individual can possess which accrue from existing in
asocial environment and which
are expressed and are
observable as judgment in social situations, as recognition of mental states of others, as the extent to which human behavior is observed, and as the extent to which an interest in others is taken. 3.
Employment Success.
The adequate assumption of
responsibility to fellow workers, supervisors, and company. This includes the quantity and quality of workmanship, cooperation, ability, motivation, mental alertness, persistence, and dealing with people on an adequate level.
III.
LIMITATIONS OF STUDY
Scope of problem.
This
investigation was carried out
3 Edward B. Greene, Measurements of Human Behavior. (The Odyssey Press, New York:19^1) / P • 771.
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in Los Angeles, California.
The tests were administered to
one hundred and fifty-seven males, as part of a battery of f o u r .psychological tests, who remained in the hire of the company studied for two years or m ore.
The employment
success evaluation was given to a representative sample of the one hundred and fifty-seven males, the rating being made by the individual's immediate supervisor.
The rated group
consists of one hundred and fourteen male workers, including twenty-three clerks, twenty-six supervisors, and sixty-five salesmen. Weaknesses of the investigation.
(l) There is the
possibility that the questions were not clear to some of the supervisors.
(2) It is possible that individual differences
in supervisors would result in an inaccurate evaluation. (3) There exists the tendency to check the average choice on each factor.
(A) Due to the fact that the company has
several branch offices and a number of departments the only way to have the employees rated was to resort to the use of separate evaluators; there were twenty evaluators. An attempt was made in the construction of the questionnaire to minimize the tendency to check the average choice on each factor by mixing up the choices.
The means
of the evaluation are score totals presented for each evaluator in an attempt to demonstrate the consistency of evaluation.
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IV.
ORGANIZATION BY CHAPTERS
Chapter I contains a statement of the problem, its worth, and weaknesses.
Definitions of terms are also
presented. A discussion of the literature pertinent to this investigation may be found in summary form in the second chapter. Chapter III contains the experimental techniques and methods used in this study.
There is also to be found there
a description of the tests used and the population sampled. The fourth chapter contains an analysis and a discussion of the results of the investigation. Chapter V contains the summary, the conclusions, and recommendations for further investigation. The appendix and bibliography follow the fifth and final chapter.
CHAPTER II REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE The combined attributes that an individual can possess which accrue from existing in a social environment and which are expressed and are observable as judgment in social situations, as recognition of mental states of others, as the extent to which human behavior is observed, and as the extent to which an interest in others is taken are referred to as social intelligence.
The theory of social
intelligence is rather well presented by E . L. Thorndike .1 Thorndike believes that there are three types of intelligence, abstract or academic, mechanical, and social.
He presents
the theory that academic or abstract intelligence is the ability to understand and manage abstract concepts, that mechanical intelligence is the ability to understand and manage things which exist in the concrete environment, and that social intelligence is the ability to understand and manage people.
These are considered to be separate mental
abilities and it is further stated that whereas it is reasonably simple to establish criteria to measure the
1 E. L. Thorndike, "Intelligence and Its Uses," Harper's Magazine, 1920, 140:227-235*
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academic and mechanical intelligence, the establishment of criteria to measure the social intelligence ability is relatively difficult.
However he believed that if something
exists at all it can be measured. It will be found in the following pages that the measuring of social intelligence is a rather difficult thing to do.
The results of experimentation on this topic are not
conclusive.
For example, a few of the researchers concluded
from their investigations that abstract and social intelligence are not separate abilities.
Other experimenters
could not determine whether they were one or two.
Still
others concluded that social intelligence is entirely different from academic ability. M. E. Broom 2 investigated the validity of the Social Intelligence Test.
A college group at San Diego State
Teacher’s College was used.
The group was administered a
Social Intelligence Test, and the Thorndike Intelligence Examination, Series of 1925-1929*
The Social Intelligence
Test scores were studied in relation to the total battery of tests in the Thorndike Intelligence Examination and part III of the intelligence examination.
The study of the paired
2 M. E. Broom, ,fA Further Study of the Validity of a Test of Social Intelligence," Journal of Educational Research, 1930, 22:403-405.
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scores revealed that reading comprehension and academic intelligence are important factors in the earning of a score on the Social Intelligence Test.
Broom believed further that
he had established* by his evidence* that social and academic intelligence were two different variables.
He felt that the
error in acquiring a high correlation between two different variables* such as social and academic intelligence* was to be found in the crude attempts of measuring and certainly not in the theoretical conception. Two other investigators* H. E. Garrett and ¥. W. K e l l o g g * 3 working with a slightly different problem which
employed the Social Intelligence Test as one of the various measures* came to the conclusion that the Social Intelligence Test is a test of verbal intelligence as well as social intelligence.
The major efforts of these men were directed
in the field of body types as compared to personality.
In
their investigation* which used a Thorndike Intelligence Test for the high school level* it was found that it correlated with the Social Intelligence Test fairly well:
A 2 .
When
the coefficient of correlation was corrected for attenuation
3 H. E. Garrett* and W. W. Kellogg* nThe Relation of Physical Constitution to General Intelligence* Social Intelligence* and Emotional Instability, Journal of Experimental Psychology* 1928* 11:113-29.
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it was:
.52.
The study was carried out on a population of
one hundred and twenty-three college freshmen. Another investigation^ used ninety-two college women in an attempt to come to some conclusion as to what social intelligence is.
The group consisted of three types of
women:
socially active, socially inactive, and a random
group.
In the group of thirty women who were socially
inactive, the Social Intelligence T e s t ’s mean score was IO 3 .3 .
The group of thirty-two who were socially active
women had a mean score on the Social Intelligence Test of
105 . 101.9.
The third and unselected group had a mean score of The differences between the groups were found to be
insignificant.
In the same study sixteen sorority women were
rated by sixteen sorority presidents, and then the ranks were transmuted into scores.
The correlation coefficient between
the personal ratings and the Social Intelligence Test was .16.
In an attempt to investigate the nature of the Social
Intelligence Test further, twenty-seven subjects were selected who averaged 102 and had a median of 103 on the Social Intelligence Test.
These people were then given the
Introversion-Extroversion Personal Inventory, which is issued
^ V. R. McClatchy, "A Theoretical and Statistical Criticism of the Concept of Social Intelligence and of Attempts to Measure Such a Process," Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 1929, 24:217-220.
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by Colgate University. was
The correlation between the two tests
.53* and the P. E. was .10.
It was held that this
result would have been expected using a general intelligence test* but not a social intelligence test.
The conclusion
was essentially that if social intelligence is an ability it should fit* either by logic or experimentation* into the results of experimentation. An investigation by the author of the Social Intelligence Test^ found social intelligence was being measured by the Social Intelligence Test rather than abstract or verbal intelligence.
F. A. Moss held that the Social
Intelligence Test was designed to measure ability to under stand and manage people.
The test had been administered to
twelve thousand persons* the total sample including both industrial and school groups.
It was felt that the traits
which are necessary to form adequate social contacts are the following:
judgment in social situations* memory for
names and faces* keenness in the observation of human behavior* the ability to recognize mental states from facial expressions* the ability to understand motives behind the spoken word* and the possession of information concerning topics of social interest.
5 F. A. Moss* "The Measurement of Social Intelligence*" Psychological Bulletin, 1928* 25:168-169.
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The reliability of the Social Intelligence Test was checked two ways.
The same form of the test was administered
to one hundred college students four months apart.
The
coefficient of correlation between the two administrations was .8 9 . Another method of establishing reliability was used also.
The tests of one hundred and twenty-nine persons were
scored by using the counts of the odd and even items separately.
The scores were then correlated and the Spearman-
Brown Prophecy formula used to determine the reliability of the whole test.
The reliability was .8 8 .
The validity of the test was measured three ways. First, ninety-eight employees in a large Sales Company took the Social Intelligence Test and were rated by their superior on a seven point scale. got along with people. found to be .61.
The scale dealt with how well they The coefficient of correlation was
Second, two hundred and sixty-two college
students were selected on the basis of participation in extra-curricular activity.
It was determined that the mean
score for those with no extra-curricular activity was 99 , participating in two activities netted the students a score of 110 , those students who participated in three such activities had a score with a mean of 112 , and the students who participated In four extra-curricular activities had a mean score of 116.
Third, an investigation was carried on
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in a Southern University using women.
The results which
were obtained were substantially the same in all respects as those above.
The investigator has come to the conclusion
that the Social Intelligence Test clearly seems to be measuring something important in determining participation in campus activities and organizations.
Moss also discussed
the positive correlations found in all cases between the Social Intelligence Test and the tests of abstract intelligence.
Several such correlations were enumerated:
Thorndike Intelligence Test and Social Intelligence Test — .42, George Washington Mental Alertness Test and Social Intelligence Test —
.54, McCall Multi-Mental and Social
Intelligence Test —
.25, and Pintner Classification Test
and Social Intelligence Test —
.30.
It was concluded from
the above that it is quite reasonable to assume that some general intelligence is being tested, but it is impossible to say that the tests of general intelligence and the Social Intelligence Test are measuring the same thing. The investigators Pintner and Upshall, the other side of the divergent positions.
shed light on
The population
of this investigation consisted of fifty graduate students.
^ R. Pintner, and C. C. Upshall, "Some Results of Social Intelligence Tests,” School and Society, 1928, 27:369-370.
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The population was given the Social Intelligence Test, the Gilliland Sociability Test, and a reliable verbal intelligence test. The results were as follows:
the mean found for the
Social Intelligence Test for a college population was 113, and the median found in this particular investigation was also 113 ; the supplied Q 1 value was 98 the obtained value 99; the supplied
value was 123 and the obtained value was
also 123 ; for Q the supplied value was 12.5 and the obtained value was 12.0.
These display an unusually close relation
ship between the investigation and the printed norms for the test.
The correlation between the Social Intelligence Test
and the Gilliland Sociability Test for thirty-two cases was .14 with a P. E. of .11.
It was concluded, therefore, that
whatever the tests were measuring it could not be the same thing.
A reliable verbal intelligence test was then
correlated with the Social Intelligence Test, and the correlation between them was found to be .68 .
The verbal
intelligence test was correlated with the Gilliland Sociability Test using nineteen cases, and the coefficient of correlation was found to be .12.
The general conclusion
of this investigation was to the effect that if the Social Intelligence Test is actually a measure of social intelligence, then for the selected population of graduate students, the verbal intelligence and the social intelligence correlate
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closely in general.
Also administered to the same graduate
students of only forty-eight was a test of the "Community of Ideas" type.
This test was scored on the basis of the
number of common responses.
The correlation between the
Social Intelligence Test and the "Community of Ideas" type test was found to be only .04.
The general purpose of the
"Community of Ideas" type test is to give a rough indication of the tendency to give common rather than individual responses.
The conclusions formulated from the unsuccessful
attempts to correlate the Social Intelligence Test with other possible measures are that perhaps the Social Intelligence Test actually does not measure the ability to understand and manage people or that social intelligence and abstract intelligence are so closely related that it would be unprofitable to attempt to distriminate between them. 7 R. Strang' conducted an investigation along the same lines of research as the previous one, but Strang’s study was more extensive and involved more possible measures of social intelligence manifestations. Data found in the study:
^ R. Strang, "Relation of Social Intelligence to Certain Other Factors," School and Society, 1930, 32:268-272.
16 S.I.T. General intelligence ............... Term marks .......................... Gilliland test ..................... Occupation of father (Barr scale) Nationality ....................... Place of birth ..................... Self-support ....................... ................... Club activities Voluntary work ..................... ............. Experience as teacher Experience as dean ................. Salary .............................. A g e ............................
.44 .29 .17 .13 .02 .03 .02 .11 .03 -.06 -.03 .03 -.15
Sub test -2 .15 .03 .00 -.10 -.10 .10 .04 -.04 .02 -.07 -.18
N 157 311 107 311 311 311 310 311 311 290 ill 298 311
The general conclusions drawn from the above data can be summarized as:
1.
If social intelligence were a unique
ability, then the correlation would be lower, or should be lower with the general intelligence score; 2.
One would be
inclined to expect a higher coefficient of correlation with other measures of sociability; 3.
A significant relationship
between the Social Intelligence Test and extra-curricular activities, voluntary work, social and economic background, salary, and experience as dean. The reason that the expectations could not be met could be that social intelligence and general intelligence may be related parts of the whole, and not separate abilities. Or the Social Intelligence Test may only test one part of the social intelligence, that is, the informational and not the functional part.
The lack of correlation could be due to
Inadequacies of measurements in rating the various factors
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used as criteria.
A contributing factor may be that of the
population used for the study, which is atypical. In a rather short investigation to determine the o
validity of the Social Intelligence Test, M. E. Broom
tested
two hundred and fifty-eight college students (mostly freshmen) at San Diego State Teacher's College.
The
validation was determined by statistical comparisons made with the Thorndike Intelligence Examination, Series of 19251929. The data gathered by this investigator is supplied below: n. 1233 (norms) Thorndike 258 " 4181 (norms) S. I. T. md. 258 n — r — Prob. k —
258 .56 Error -- .029 .828
S.D.
C. of V. (Pearson)
Mean
P -E -m
6 l .8 60.3 98.0 98.0
.30 .64
15.46 15.26
25.02 25.31
.68
16.31
16.44
To find the degree of correspondence between the two tests the coefficient of correlation was corrected for attenuation. r —
.644
The investigator concluded that the two tests validated each other rather well.
M. E. Broom, nA Note on the Validity of a Test of Social Intelligence,M Journal of Applied Psychology, 1928, 12:426-428.
18 Grossvenor^
studied the relationship of the Social
Intelligence Test with a Terman Group (B) Test and class room information.
The population employed was one hundred
and thirty-six girls in the ninth grade of a senior commercial high school. The data is represented below: Correlations of Terman Group (B) Test with: Chronological age Physiological age S. I. Test S. I. Test - part S. I. Test - part S. I. Test - part S. I. Test - part S. I. Test - part S. I. Test - part
1 2 3 4 5 6
-.0978 -.0276 .75 .637 .854 ,82 .46 .37 .93
Arithmetic English Short hand Typing Spelling
.55 .398 .1165 .069 .0582
Correlations of Social Intelligence Test with: Terman Chronological Physiological Arithmetic English Short hand Typing Spelling
age age
.75 -.0 65 .466 .261 .311 .2145 .123 .147
The investigator's conclusions were not exactly on the topic.
However, she concluded that chronological age was
not a good basis for dividing children into classes and that
9 E. L. Grossvenor, "Study of the Social Intelligence of High School Pupils," American Physical Education Review, 1927, 32 :656 .
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physiological age is better to use.
More to the point would
be: That the Social Intelligence Test seems to correlate quite a bit higher with physjological age than does the Terman test.
However, the two tests are amazingly similar
in prediction of academic success.
The investigator further
concludes that it would be wise to administer a Social Intelligence Test and a Terman Group (B) Test to all pupils to aid the schools in constructing a better program for their instruction. An investigator10 at Stanford University did a study to determine the relationship of the Social Intelligence Test scores to social ratings.
For this study fifty women
were selected from five different sorority houses.
The
population was composed of freshmen, sophomores, juniors and seniors.
The tests used were the Thorndike College Aptitude
Test and the Social Intelligence Test.
Ratings were obtained
by sorority sisters on four social traits:
social prestige,
social knowledge, social desire, and ability to inspire affection. The results are indicated below and are:
10 Francis W. Burks, uThe Relation of Social Intelligence Test Scores to Ratings of Social Traits,” Journal of Social Psychology, 1937* 8:146-53-
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Ability to Inspire Affection
Social Prestige r PE Z/(TZ
r PE z/crz
.26 .09 -1.7§
Social Knowledge r PE z/
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115
236
1
2
4 13 23
Z9 27 34 28
31 25 16 24 7 9 2
47 13 10 io 1
215 242
*3 ' 7 2 1
195 142 -105
208
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tBe middle score falls. (In Table 2 the 25th tally mark from the Bottom is in the interval 40-44. Therefore this interval is given the rating C.) Assign ratings to the. intervals above and below the C interval as shown. (If necessary to go beyond A + , use AA, AAA, etc.) There after,, scores may be interpreted in terms of letter ratings, remembering'that C is “ average.” (The author will be glad to furnish suggestions for making up a table of percentile norms if a need for one is felt.) . -If desired to have fewer ratings, omit the pluses and minuses; let scores between 35 and 49 be rated C, those between 50 and 64, B, etc. If desired, separate tabulations also may be made for applicants of .each classification, such as artisans, clerks, salesmen, foremen, execu tives, etc., and each type of applicant rated in comparison with others of his classification. For this purpose it m aybe best to use the same table of ratings for all classifications, but it may be found for example from the separate distributions, that manual workers average C —, clerks average C, foremen average B —, etc. Obviously tables must be made for Test 1 and Test 2 separately, . since Test 2 is harder than Test 1. But scores in all forms of Test imay be entered in one table, and the same for Test 2.
and
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Table 3 shows the correspondence between scares in Tests 1 and 2, with 30-minute time limits. The table shows, for example, that a score of 35 in Test 1 is equiv alent to a score of 21 in Test 2. TABLE 3 C o r r e s p o n d e n c e b e t w e e n S c o r e s in T e s t r . w it h 30-M in u t e T im e L im it s
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th e
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21 22 23 24 25
58 59 60 61 62
41 42 44 45 47
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27 28 29 30
63 64 65 66 67
49 50 5i 53 55
48 49 5° 5i 52
31 32 33 34 35
68 69 70
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73 74 75
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C a u t io n
The user should bear in mind that a test of this sort is not infallible. It is only an approximate measure of mental ability. If a group of examinees who have been tested once are tested a second time with an alternative form of the test, their scores will be found to have shifted in order somewhat. Moreover, it must be remembered that mental ability is only one of the factors that make for success on a job. Others are special aptitude, interest in the work, previous training and experience, physical energy, effort and application, personality traits, etc. Some of these can be judged on the basis of an interview and need to be taken into consideration together with the applicant’s score in the mental ability test. For example, a person may have a high mental ability and still fail as a salesman or a foreman for lack of the necessary personality