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Page 165 - Indeed a case could well be made out for the thesis that the theoretical objections sometimes brought against mental measurement really hold in the last resort against all measurement, and prove too much: and that the real difference between mental measurement and physical measurement is simply that mental phenomena, being practically more difficult to handle, force on our notice the epistemological difficulties inherent in all measurement, whereas in physical measurement familiarity has bred contempt.
Page 32 - ... Laboratory, Princeton University. Material: Three pairs of pictures glued to one-inch cubes, one pair to a cube. Demonstration board, 9 x 2 x J/4 inches, on which are three cubes mounted on pivots, etc. (For details, see Squires '26, p. 28...
Page 118 - ... this test. A set comprises four blocks of pictures, four pictures to a block. Analogies board, upon which are mounted two boards, or platforms, whose edges are parallel with the length of the board. Four glass markers. (For details, see Squires '26, p. 116 ff.) Problem: Given four blocks of a picture, to work out analogies between the pictures, under the condition that only one picture from each block may enter into any one analogy. Individual test: Three practice analogies; five sets of test...
Page 4 - In his introduction the author states that "the present research has endeavoured to assist in the important problem of devising a scale of performance tests that will be applicable to an individual regardless of his language equipment or of his cultural background.
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Page 4 - ... represented by the pictures. If a scale is to have application in widely scattered regions of the earth and if results are to be strictly comparable, it must not involve special cultural factors, instances of which have been given above.
Page 125 - B there are thus two patterns consisting of seven, one of eight, one of nine, and one of ten spots.
Page 5 - The performance tests so far devised by other investigators have not evidenced much power in differentiating in the upper ranges of the scale of mentality.
Page 177 - This method consists in successive approximations to the values of the regression coefficients and to the optimum multiple correlation coefficient.