My favorite item:
12. Why does it pay to get a good education?
A. it makes a man more useful and happy
B. it makes work for teachers
C. it makes demand for buildings for schools and colleges
Fortunately, a key is included and I was able to determine the correct
answer to be A. I was also surprised to find out that back before the
depression (and the home mortgage deduction) evidently some people rented
houses instead of buying because they could make more by investing the
excess money. I don't suppose that item appeared on any tests after 1929.
Rick
Dr. Richard L. Froman
Psychology Department
John Brown University
Siloam Springs, AR 72761
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.jbu.edu/sbs/psych/froman.htm
-----Original Message-----
From: Sue Frantz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, February 23, 2001 4:50 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Army testing of WWI recruits
Here is a site sent to me by my history colleague.
>From the History Matters website, "IQ Tests Go to War -- Measuring
Intelligence in the Army", containing 20 examples from the tests
given to World War I U.S. Army recruits:
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/puzzle/puzzle_old9.html
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Sue Frantz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Assistant Professor of Psychology Office: (505) 439-3731
New Mexico State Univ - Alamogordo Fax: (505) 439-3802
Alamogordo, NM 88310 http://alamo.nmsu.edu/~frantz
