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...last week some test publishers had broken off diplomatic relations with Professor Buros. Nevertheless, the professor was almost ready to publish a second yearbook. This time, instead of 133 experts he had 245, among them such famed testers and educators as University of London's Charles Spearman, Yale's Edward S. Noyes, Iowa's Carl Seashore, Harvard's Charles Swain Thomas, University of Chicago's Ralph W. Tyler...
...years Dr. Charles E. Spearman, emeritus professor of Psychology at University of London, has made his name well-known as a specialist in what he calls "psycho-mathematics." A Fellow of the Royal Society, onetime (1923-26) president of the British Psychological Society, he was, according to his Who's Who entry, "twice thanked by the British Admiralty for psychological services...
Last week Oldster Spearman was in Ann Arbor, Mich, to tell the American Psychological Association convention about a basic mind entity called...
Such was Dr. Spearman's procedure. Some 1,200 persons were subjected to no less than 94 tests-for aptitude in the arts and sciences, for handling and comprehension of words, even for physical strength and "fancifulness." In all but the last two, Psychologist Spearman found the scores affected by a general factor which he called G. This G appeared to be an innate fund of mental energy, a sort of all-around cerebral handyman at the service of special endeavors and special abilities. Thus a person's proficiency at poker, for example, is the result...
...without pronounced special abilities. Geniuses need both G and an extraordinary special talent, although the amount of G required for music, painting and literature is small. Proficiency in geometry (dealing with space) and in arithmetic (dealing, with numbers) are entirely unrelated except for a common demand on G. Dr. Spearman would not define G exactly, said it might have some connection with "the mass-action of the cortex of the brain...