Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Professor spoke of Alsop's report on Prague, which he claims was written after a week-end stop-over in the country, claiming that report of biased. But now that two methods of observation have been put to the test, we can check the scores. A. Y. Davis...
Canals & Superscientists? That was about as far as Dr. Kuiper went. He did not speculate about a race of lichen eaters. He took no direct photographs, and did not see the famous Martian "canals" that astronomers (and Sunday supplement readers) argue about. The canals may get their test in a couple of years when Mars swings around again, and the 200-inch telescope on Palomar Mountain is ready to take its picture...
...testing executives for new jobs, S.R.I. depends chiefly on its own applications of psychologists' "thematic-apperception test," in which the subject is asked for his reaction to certain pictures. Among the ten pictures used by S.R.I.: a boy, leaning on his chin, contemplating a violin and bow; a boy and a woman in conversation; a boy at a window looking up into the sky; a man on a rope...
Typical reaction of those who flunk the rope picture test: the man is climbing down the rope. (Successful executives usually say he is climbing up.) The boy and woman picture is actually a test of aggressiveness, in which likely subjects see a boy leaving home no matter what his mother says. Less promising subjects see him waiting for her decision, or accepting her command to stay home. The reactions to S.R.I.'s pictures also give clues to such considerations as whether a subject becomes confused or lost in detail (a bad sign), and how active his imagination...
...Success. With formal questioning and informal ("Tell me about yourself") interviews, the whole S.R.I, test takes only 40 minutes. Analyzers then take about five hours to weigh the answers "blind" (they never see the subject) and predict how the subject will do in a certain...