An experimental test in evaluating the most essential qualifications for the position of "office clerk.'

Abstract

To determine whether persons of good judgment and experience can substantially agree as to the essential qualifications for a position, a questionnaire was filled out by thirty judges. Results indicate that human judgment taken individually is just as likely to be highly erratic as it is to be highly consistent, but that the pooling of a number of judgments does produce a fairly satisfactory degree of reliability and consistency. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)