Methods for the selection of comptometer operators and stenographers

Abstract

This study was made to determine if certain tests of the Bureau of Personnel Research of Carnegie Institute of Technology would serve first, as a basis for the selection of applicants for courses in stenography and comptometer operation in a technical night school; and second, to determine if from a group of applicants it was possible to select successful comptometer and stenographic operators without an extended tryout. That is, the first purpose demanded that failures be eliminated and the second that sure successes be selected. The results are discussed in this article. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)