13. What is suggested in the third paragraph as the probable result of failing to place men in positions suited to their abilities?
14. It is quite common to determine a man’s ability by trying him out in the job. What objection to this plan does any word in the third paragraph suggest?
15. What procedure is said to be a practical means of saving time and money in the selection of men for positions?
16. What is stated as a probable cause for general gratification at some future time?
The score in this test is the number of questions correctly answered. A stencil is provided with each set of test booklets by the aid of which it is fairly simple to mark an answer as right or wrong. An answer should be considered wrong if it does not prove in itself that the candidate had read the paragraph and obtained his information from it. Any answer which is true in general life but which is not suggested by the reading material on the previous page, should not be accepted.
Scores from 0 to 3 indicate Inferior Ability Scores from 4 to 7 indicate Low Average Ability Scores from 8 to 12 indicate Average Ability Scores from 13 to 14 indicate High Average Ability Scores from 15 to 16 indicate Superior Ability
Publishers and editors have for many years insisted upon having intelligent compositors and type-setters. The printer’s pi is probably as comprehensive a test of intelligence as any in the Mentimeter series. In the Binet tests, one of the most interesting parts of the examination is where children are asked to take certain words and rearrange them to make a sentence. This is not exactly the same problem that the type-setter faces with pi, but it is related to it. A disarranged sentence test was used in the military examinations, but in order to make the scoring simple and to include elements of intellectual capacity other than ability to rearrange words, the soldiers were asked to check the resulting sentence as “true” or “false.” Here again, without being able to read a single word of the sentences which had been disarranged, the soldiers would be able to make check marks in the correct place by mere chance in half the cases. The method of scoring used in the Army was calculated to overcome this difficulty, but even then the results were not as reliable as they should be in the case of the Mentimeter form presented below.