Word: test
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prisoners doing. He gave a few hints?now the clergyman was holding up a playing card, now a layman was putting something funny on his head, now one of the ladies was exhibiting a picture. The prisoners were putting their minds on what they were doing. The test was to see if, by concentration, telepathic messages could be broadcast for able thinkers to receive...
...good test would be to have all self-styled astrologers predict that week in the future which will witness another such epidemic as swept the world last week-an epidemic of buying and selling newspapers...
...have no brains. Let us take the Binet test. If I do not beat you I will give you a prize. You have no right to a seat in the Senate. You know it. The disenfranchised Negroes know...
...bridge in the world?" "How do kangaroos carry their offspring?" "What is a morganatic marriage ? " "Who was the 'Wild Bull of the Pampas'?" Each pair of experimentees answered a separate set of 50 questions. The lowest score, 61%, was made by Dr. John Broadus Watson, on a test which included the question: "Who is the leading authority in the modern school of psychology known as 'Behaviorism'?" Novelist Alice Duer Miller batted out the highest score, 97%. Professor George F. ("Than") Whicher of Amherst and Editor Holland Thompson of The Book of Knowledge tied for first place...
...able to got on at Yale, and away from old cut-and-dried methods, which as older graduates will recall, were a bone of contention between the University and its Western alumni a decade or more ago. We do not believe that any rule of thumb test, whatever it is called, will be of much use in discovering a boy's aptitude for college work. But the Scholastic Aptitude tests that are now being experimented with avoid that error; if they are not given too great weight, they can be of some use without doubt. The danger in that sort...