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...process is repeated a second time, but after the youngster has guessed the new toy's size, he is suddenly not allowed to have it. The tester than asks his subject to estimate again the size of the toy he desires...
...Teen-age Tester. Attractive new publisher Thompson has had to learn plenty of other new jobs in her time. Except for a brief stint in advertising, she has been in the magazine business ever since 1930, when she started with Conde Nast as a $30-a-week assistant in Vogue's promotion department. Before long she was editing both the Vogue Pattern Book and a cheaper one which the company had decided to start. It was such a hit that she sold Conde Nast the idea of a fashion magazine aimed at a cheaper audience than Vogue...
...long, people kept coming to Charlie Monak's house in Detroit with handfuls of green, crumpled-up folding money. By noon he had $2,000. Charlie, a Packard Motor Car Co. dynamometer tester, ordered in two barrels of beer and plenty of whisky to go with it. As the money flowed in last week, everybody drank, yelled and danced around the front room...
...Glorig became suspicious of the test, made 173 experiments with it in a special "speech tunnel" with soundproofed walls and ceilings. He told a meeting of hearing specialists at the center last week that the hearing ability of the men tested varied widely even when the same tester used the same words to the same man, and did his best to keep his voice at the same pitch...
...reason the test is worthless : unlike Humpty Dumpty who shouted right in his friend's ear (see cut), testers instinctively lower their voices when they approach a subject. Other reasons: testers' voices vary; other sounds in usual testing rooms make a big difference but are ignored in figuring a man's hearing; because of the way the human ear works, the tester's voice does not sound significantly louder until he is within ten feet...