Word: verbal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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About the quality of the work on hand, Chicagoans were of two minds. One mind belonged to the Chicago Daily Tribune's conservative critic, Eleanor Jewett, who reported somewhat tartly that it was "practically a complete triumph for the modernists" and "filled with bad painting." "Modernism" being a verbal shinny-can long since whanged out of all shape or precision, art-lovers went to see for themselves. Most of them concluded that the Institute's 17th, representing many of the top-flight artists of 14 nations, was indeed contemporary but well up to its lively standard...
Never in the U. S. history, says Author Barnard, had a man been assaulted in the press so fiercely and irrationally. The vituperation went on for months, increasingly hysterical, until Altgeld was all but broken by it. The usual report has been that Altgeld never recovered from this verbal bombardment. Barnard's account, however, is that after being dazed and bewildered, the governor suddenly began to fight with the savagery of a man who has nothing more to lose. When Cleveland sent Federal troops to Chicago during the Pullman strike of 1894, going over Altgeld's head...
...with a tentative list of about half-a-dozen theoretical functions, created a set of 56 tests to probe them. Samples: ¶ Synonyms, anagrams-to test ability in the use of words. ¶ Disarranged true & false sentences: "large is an beast ant a"-to test perception. ¶ Tests of verbal reasoning: All pigs can fly, and all elephants are pigs, therefore all elephants can fly. Answer: The argument is correct...
...plot the scores, to sift out, with exceedingly complex mathematical formulae of his own invention, the separate mental abilities he had measured. He found seven: ability in 1) numbers, 2) words, 3) visual imagery, 4) memory, 5) perception, 6) induction (finding a rule governing a set of facts), 7) verbal reasoning. Dr. Thurstone also isolated two additional factors that he was unable to identify definitely but tentatively called deduction and problem solving. The fact that his findings did not quite agree with his original theories seemed to Dr. Thurstone proof of the validity of his tests. He had expected...
Significant was Dr. Thurstone's discovery that the work people like to do is likely to correspond with their particular mental abilities. One of his students who ranked high in verbal abilities planned to go into advertising and writing, while a student who scored high in perception but low in solving problems wanted to be an actor. Dr. Thurstone concluded that his findings not only made the general intelligence test obsolete but had two profound implications for education: 1) His tests will make it easier to find the occupation for which an individual is fitted...