Word: testers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Negro is turned down by the landlord, the FHF then assigns a "tester" to apply for the same house or apartment...
Should the tester be accepted by the landlord, there are grounds to suspect discrimination, Susan B. Schwartz '64, a founder of the CRCC said. The facts are then presented to the landlord or real estate agent and the Negro family, with the help of the housing aide, explains the law and offers to negotiate. Often the proposal is accepted, Miss Schwartz noted...
Fears & Pains. This is not the tests' only falsity, at least in the opinion of Bunkraking Author Martin Gross. A freelance writer turned test-tester, Gross argues convincingly that the personality sieves are 1) unscientific. 2) immoral, and 3) harmful to individual and corporation. Worst of all, he says, the tests do not work. The hugely profitable testing industry sells two kinds of omen analyzers. The first sort consists of printed questions that can be answered with check marks and graded by anyone who has a key. Such tests cost relatively little-as low as $7 an employee-because...
Wait Till Supine. Such "analysis" can be done by mail, but some testers supplement it with "depth" interviews lasting an hour or more. The chief psychologist for the "management engineering" firm of Stevenson, Jordan & Harrison told Gross that "we set up a sort of doctor-patient relationship to put employees at their ease. I try to make the man feel as much at home as possible.'' A testing psychologist at George Fry said: "I wait until I have him almost supine. After that, he reveals himself quickly and I learn a great deal about the man." The Hippocratic...
...Charles Addams imagination. And that isn't bad. Because our technique relies on many cards, we can judge whether an odd response is isolated and relatively insignificant, or whether it forms part of a pattern of responses of a similar type." Bats Abroad. The H.I.T. tester deals a card at a time, notes how many seconds it takes the subject to answer, then scores the response. Regardless of training, testers are almost certain to agree on classifying the content of the response as human, animal, anatomic, sexual or abstract...