Word: testing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...article states that CLAO has a test case seeking to establish a standard procedure for dealing with elderly persons living alone who are sometimes admitted involuntarily to mental institutions for observation when they appear to be incapable of caring for themselves or may be dangerous to their neighbors in the same building through careless use of hot plates, kerosene lamps, etc. CLAO has not brought such a case. Dr. Benjamin Sachs, the Health Commissioner, recently called a meeting of all agencies which come across elderly persons in this situation to discuss on a city-wide basis what should be done...
Personality Test Results...
...group seeking psychiatric help was lower on the F-scale, a test designed to measure the extent to which the subject accepts authoritarian positions in various areas. Students in the psychiatric group were lower on a measure of social desirability, that is they were less likely to endorse statements about values in a conventional and confirming manner. They were lower on a scale which measures the need to be different. For example, they were more inclined to say dislike rather than like to such statements as "Going along with a decision made by a supervisor or leader rather than starting...
...records are selling all over the country, even in deep-dyed--triple-dyed, if you please--Baptist, fundamentalist Texas. Everywhere except Cambridge." To capitalize on the publicity value of the ban, however, Stollman has to find a commercial organization to place the records on sale and so precipitate a test case to determine the legal status of the records. At present, he can't find any takers...
Random samples of students from the Harvard Classes of 1964 and 1965 were followed for the duration of their college careers. By using samples from two different classes, we could in effect "repeat our experiment," or test our initial hypotheses. From the first of the random samples we selected a smaller group (initially 50) for an in depth, or case history study...