Differences in the talents and abilities of young people

Abstract

Description of a series of tests for apprentice printers and compositors, evolved in cooperation with the Association of Master Printers of Copenhagen, Denmark. The tests include setting, laying out, reading, proof-reading, spelling, memory tests, setting up advertisements and titles, tests for color-blindness, adjustment test (judging relative clearness of a set of three impressions of a picture), test of practical mechanics, common sense questions, perspective drawing. In such tests as setting, laying out, etc., the quickest individual performed roughly twice as much work as the slowest. The description of each test is followed by a few data giving the distribution of scores; these were not treated statistically. Neither the reliability nor the validity of the tests was computed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)