Word: test
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...this theory were true, Stone reasoned, football players after a really bloody and satisfying scrimmage would be far less aggressive-minded than before a practice, or after the season was over when they could no longer aggress freely. To test this hypothesis he used Thematic Apperception Tests (known affectionately as TATs) to find out their aggressiveness...
...three Crimson squads, won a summa last spring for his thesis on aggression in football. He thinks, and at least three eastern coaches agree with him, that his theories could eventually be very useful in coaching. The Navy also agrees; it has been paying all the expenses of testing, both for Stone's initial work last fall, and for a check experiment now being run at another Ivy League college by Stone's broth C. Elliott. It hopes to use the data obtained in formulating a test to determine how men will react under pressure of battle...
There were two parts to the test. The first, and most important from a psychological point of view, was designed to check the validity of the "frustration-aggression" theory, well-known...
Pending confirmation from the check test now running at the other college. Stone is willing to say that coaches could find this method of analysis useful. With the huge squads of a modern football team, a handy player-by-player analysis such as this would be very useful in paring down the list, eliminating most of the men in group two, for instance...
...before the Economic Club in Manhattan rose Chairman Alan Valentine of the Economic Stabilization Agency. "Do we need drastic surgery such as general [price & wage] controls?" he asked. Professorial Dr. Valentine then gave himself a cryptic answer: "We shall soon know . . . as we observe a few test cases now under way in important fields." Valentine did not name the test cases, but it was a good bet that he was thinking about the steel industry, where a wage increase is sure to be followed by a price rise. Perhaps Dr. Valentine was trying to frighten other businessmen who had price...