Word: itemizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many ways, MISCELLANY is the most difficult column in the magazine to fill. For one thing, the rules of the game require that every item be written in one sentence, and some amusing short news stories simply will not compress into one sentence. Further, the item must appeal to 1) the writer, 2) the senior editor, 3) the managing editor, and 4) the researcher...
...Thursday, the MISCELLANY writer goes through his harvest of suggestions, sorts out the promising ones. Usually, he writes about twice the number of items that will see final print. After the item is written, the next step is to give it a heading. Wrote one TIME reader from New Hampshire recently: "Would you please tell me who is responsible for the titles given the various items of your MISCELLANY columns?" Answer: the writer gives the item the heading he likes best, and hopes the editors agree. If they do not, it is changed. This becomes a sort of game...
...form was them pre-tested and answered correctly by 40 percent of those taking the test. Since those giving the right answer far outnumbered those giving any other, the item was placed on a regular ETS exam...
After the tests have been marked each question is studied on a special item analysis chart. A question of average difficulty is expected to be answered correctly by 60 percent of those trying to pick one of the five possible answers usually provided in ETS tests. If more people choose a particular wrong answer that the right one, the question is eliminated. This occasionally happens because of ambiguity on the part of the test-maker. An example of this is the following question included in a recent aptitude test...
While the correct answer was item four it was found that 43 percent answered number one as against 28 percent who chose four. The obvious ambiguity was eliminated so that the question read...