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Our Great New Army-No. 1

THEY MEASURE MINDS

A COLONEL, who is training thou-

sands of recruits fresh from civil Ilfe, tells me that he has been keep- ing some interesting records of men and their Jobs.

These prove that hardly one man In a hundred has any true choice in the career he takes up.

Most men begin their working life- by doing Anything that will give them an immediate wage, irrespec- tive of its appeal to them, or their sultability for it.

Thousands gu automatically into the factory, the mill or the pit, be- cause the local custom; thon sands adopt the trades of their fathers, and only a small percentage deliberately set out to do what they wish to do.

The Right Idea

"The result is," said this colonel, "that life is even fuller than I Im- agined it to be of square pegs in round holes.

"Economic necessity drives many men into Jobs which they either actively hate or mildly dislike, and they never have a chance to pause and discover a job they would pre- fer, or one more suited to their abilities.

"When the war is over, and we make our New Order, I suggest that our starting point is the realisation that men are more important than money and that human happiness Is more important than industrial pro- {t.

"Having agreed to this, we must then apply some system of measure- ment to men's minds in order to decide, or rather help them to de- elde, the work they are most Atted to do.

"Perhaps the Army has got the right idea in its pyschology and in- telligence tests.

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Those who regard the Army vast, but careless, employer of labour may be surprised to learn that for the past six months, the War Office has been applying a' lest to a man power that Industry has never al tempted to apply to the capacity of ordinary workers.

This is the most embillous attempt ever made to And the right man för the job.

No ono pretends that these tests are Infallible, but everyone in authority realises that they do prevent an enormous number of men from being pushed into duties which they are neither mentally nor temperamental- ly fitted to perform.

This is a welcome change from the last war, whon a man's fitness for any particular job was less important than his proximity to IL

Twenty-ave years ago, for instance. An accomplished planist would, ne likely as not, be discovered with: blackened hands in the cookhouse and there may be similar · victims

find that You would probably planist to-day working some delicate machine, such as a predictor, which requires "playing" with a sensitive pair of hands.

The methods by which ability in war are assessed are known as psychology and intelligence tests, and they are devised by the School of Psychiology of Cambridge:

I believe I am right in saying that the Air Force Arst used, them to find out whether a man should be trained for a Spitäre or a Wellington.

So successful were they in picking out the bomber temperament from the fighter, temperament that the Army decided to apply similar tests to all recruits.

These tests vary, of course, from one branch of the service to another.

Training Ways

1 watched one of these examina- tions at a training centre for light A.A. gunners.

The men had been drafted to this centre from every branch of civil employment. There were men from villages and cities, from factories and felda.

To turn over their documents in the orderly. room was to find the particulars of a landscape gardener lying between those of a plasterer's labourer and a garage hand.

Now the task of the centre is to And out as soon as possible those who are best fitted by temperament to man the ten positions on the gun. Number is the detachment com- must have his wits mander. He about him and be able to give orders. Numbers 2 and 3 ore in charge of the predictor, and require quick brain and good hands.

Numbers 7 and 9 are on the gun itself Number 7 aims it for line: Number & for elevation, They must be men with good sight and quick physical reaction.

Number 4 loads and fires under orders. He has to be a quick, 'sen- sible fellow, but, apart from that, his is a routine job.

Numbers 5 and 6 are ammunition dumpers, who carry the shells 10 Number 4.

Number 9 works the electrical generator and drives one of the mechanical lorries. He must be a type,

Number 10 is really the second in command, and must be able to con- trol the gun, if he is not using the predictor.

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How It Works

Thus you see how many varied qualities are demonded from a per- feet gun team.

Now let us see how paychology helps to pick these men,

Wo went into an Army hut, where about twenty young soldiers were sitting at tables. A sorgeant, handed- qut papers containing groups of printed figures.

An officer spoke to the men and, after explaining the tests, gave out the first problem!

this time; but not so many! Heutenant is senior to a

The Army to-day takes such a man and attempts to assess his usefulness

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general, place a close under every ninekin the first line," but if a gèn» ural, tasentor to a lieutenant cross cut all numbers immediately before

The sergeant with n stop-watch timed them, and they went on to the next question!

"You will see on the paper before you three circles and the figure X. The figure X represents a ship at sea and the three circles are mines. You have five seconds to draw a line from the ships, X, showing its course north of the first two mlies "and south of the third."

Various problems of this kind, each - one becoming more difficult, were set, all of them designed to indicate quickness of brain. common sense, ability to follow an instruction and Keneral intelligence.

Then followed a number of eye and judgment tests-obviously im- portant for A.A. gunners.

The men were given sheets of which were printed six paper on numbered squares, and on each square was printed a triangle, a ather geometrical

circle or .shape.

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Beneath the circles were perhaps twenty nssaried geometrical shapes, some of which corresponded to the shapes on the squares,

More Tests

One minute was allowed for the men to decide which shapes corres- ponded.

This was not dimeult because the shapes were all the right way up. and could casily be judged by eye. But the next test was more difcult because the shapes, in addition to being more complicated, were upside down or at an ongle different from those in the squares,

It required considerable judgment and a good eye to decide which was which.

The third and fourth tests were so dimcult that, I was told, only archi- tects and draughtsmen, or others used to dealing with plans, usually got full marks In the time allowed.

The men were then put through two ingenious tests designed to in- dicate lightness of touch and control of machinery.

First, they came out one by one and were shown a sinte on which were engraved two wavering lines with a narrow track between them only a fraction of an inch in width.

The two sides of the track were electrically charged so that when a metal penell was placed on the track it communiented with a buzzer the moment one side of the track or the other had been touched.

The test consisted of running over the track with the metal pencil with. out touching the sldes and setting up a penalising buzz.

No one, I was told, has ever done this with fower than about twenty buzzes, and the average number is nity.

By Touch

The second test was even more difficult.

Two gramophone, motors, running at different speeds, controlled the revolutions of n roller upon which was printed the allhouette of. an aeroplane.

The revolutions of the roller ware controlled by a handle which slowed down the faster motor, until the ihe roller hung. motionless and aeroplane remained set in the same position; but extreme gentleness of touch was necessary,

Once the roller was under control it remained so delicately poised that the weight of a butterfly on the wheel would send it spinning off at great speed,

"Buch tests give us something to go on," said the officer.

"They show, for instance, that It would be a waste of man, power, td train a fellow who has perfect hands esan, ammunition dumper, while it would be equally wantehal to expect a man, who cannot do the simplest texts, to master the intricacies of the predictor or to be a good. No.:1 or Number 10. MENA

"But he might be a perfect Nurn ber 61

tests are not On the other. everything. Men do not always do themselves Justice. Boma, who would

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