Measure Your Mind: The Mentimeter and How to Use ItTrabue, Marion Rex
Science
Measure Your Mind: The Mentimeter and How to Use It
Trabue, Marion Rex
Educational tests and measurements; Intelligence tests; Psychological tests
☐ It would be well done.
☐ Much of it would be poorly done.
12. What characteristic of a task needs to correspond to the ability of
the worker?
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?
_Directions for Scoring the Test._
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
MENTIMETER NO. 22
DISARRANGED SENTENCES
_Character of the Test._
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.
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