Word: tested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...left in the nation's political life were in order. His death had certainly put an end to any radical independent Democratic threat to split the party in 1936.** His Louisiana followers had enough to keep them busy at home. Governor Floyd Olson of Minnesota is going to test his radicalism by opposing Senator Thomas D. Schall for his seat. Governor Eugene Talmadge of Georgia, whose abuse of President Roosevelt and the New Deal has been second only to that of the Kingfish, has Long's mannerisms but not Long's mind...
...staff's time make it necessary for Harlow to cut his candidates down to a number small enough for personal supervision. By this stage he has found out where most of his material lies and must concentrate on whipping the top 40-odd candidates into shape for the opening test on October...
...what is intrinsically unmeasurable, that there are as many psychological systems as there are psychologists, that labels are thrown around with more regard for convenience than precision. Psychology is particularly vulnerable to such attacks from outside because there is so much intra-professional bickering. The famed Stanford-Binet "Intelligence Test" (determination of IQ) is under increasing fire from skeptics who hold that intelligence must be defined before a yardstick can be applied to it, that an individual's social value may be wholly unrelated to his IQ. These skeptics guffaw loudly when, every few months, some bright moppet turns...
...polygraph has turned up many a petty pilferer. Corroborative evidence based on the polygraph has been admitted four times in U. S. courts of law. Last year Governor Comstock of Michigan pardoned a convict who steadfastly denied the murder with which he was charged and successfully passed a polygraph test...
When a physicist has determined the electric charge of one electron, he has determined the charge of all electrons. If the minds of men were like electrons, the tasks of psychologists would be easier. As it is, psychologists rarely bother with the vagaries of a single individual but test, question, examine hundreds-thousands if possible. Some conclusions distilled from such surveys and presented at last week's gathering of 500 psychologists in Ann Arbor, Mich...