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Nuggets of information such as this are becoming part of the folklore of U.S. industry. Their author is a Los Angeles psychologist who rejoices in the name of Doncaster George Humm. Dr. Humm, who took for his mission in life the job of fitting square pegs into square holes, created a "temperament test" which has made him one of the busiest men in the U.S. war effort. Some 2,000,000 workmen have taken his test, and 225 corporations would not think of making a change in personnel without consulting...
...test (called the Humm-Wadsworth Temperament Scale) is the stock in trade of Dr. Humm and his partner, Guy W. Wadsworth Jr., a vice president of Southern California Gas Co. They launched their personnel service after they had examined 350 unsatisfactory employes and found that 80% failed not for lack of skill but because of misfit temperaments...
...Humm-Wadsworth going-over, a 45-minute test, a man has to answer 318 questions such as: "Do you like to go on blind dates? Do you like to pass along a good story? Do you think traffic policemen have the right attitude toward motorists? Do you like movie heroes?" Studying the responses, Dr. Humm gets a "profile" of an individual showing his self-control, drive, truculence, tendency to daydream, etc. The average person, according to Dr. Humm, has a "normal-manic" temperament, i.e., is emotional but self-controlled...