Word: eckerson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Northwestern's famed Psychologist Robert H. Seashore and Miss Lois D. Eckerson had worked seven years devising and polishing a vocabulary test. They took a scientific sample, 1,.320 words from the 450,000 Funk & Wagnalls' unabridged dictionary. Their test: to choose from several given possibilities the right definition for each word. They gave their test to more than 500 college students...