Word: trading
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...main problem which was before the psychologists in the Great War was to put "the right man in the right place" and to place him quickly. For this purpose, several co-ordinate methods were devised, the most interesting being the psychological tests, the trade tests, the classification system, and the rating scale...
...secretaries, civil engineers, accountants, etc. The lowest in the scale are the teamsters, general miners, cobblers, tailors, and laborers. It must be remembered that this is a ranking of such occupations in the Army and probably does not hold in general, for the most intelligent men of a certain trade may have been exempted from the draft on industrial grounds...
...Classified by Trade Tests...
...trade tests were for the purpose of ascertaining how much a man knew about the trade in which he claimed to be proficient. A series of examination questions were prepared for each trade, covering specific technical points with which only a man of that trade could be expected to be familiar. He was also given certain practical problems and was classified by means of his score as expert, apprentice, etc., and placed accordingly in the Army organization...
...demands came to Washington for cooks, lumbermen, carpenters, etc., that it would be necessary to know where the men with such qualifications could be found. For that purpose, the Committee on Classification of Personnel was employed in classifying and placing three and one-half million men according to occupation, trade, scale, schooling, intellectual ability, etc. This committee also provided tables of occupational needs and of the specifications and personnel for the various trades. In this invaluable work the executive ability and common sense of the psychologist was of more importance than their special technical knowledge...