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Our Great New Army- No 11
THEY MEASURE MINDS
A COLONEL, who is training thou-
sands of recruits fresh trum civil life, tells me that he has been keep- ing some. Interesting records of men and their jobs.
These prove that hardly one mon in a hundred has any true choice in the career he taken up.
Most men begin their working life by doing anything that will give them an Immediate wage, irrespec- live of its appeal to them, or their suitability for it.
Thousands co nutomatically. into the factory, the mill or the pit, be cause it is the local custom; thou- sonels adopt the trades of their fathers, and only a small percentage deliberately set out to do what they wish to do.
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The Right Idea
"The result is," said this colonel. "that life is even fuller than I im- egined it to be of square pegs in round holes,
"Economie necessity drives many men into jobs which they either betively 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 ablilties.
"When the war is over, and we make our New Order, i suggest that uur starting point is the realisation that men are more important thun money, and that human happiness is more important than Industrial pro- At.
"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 fitted to do.
"Perhaps the Army has got the right iden in its pyschology and la telligence tests . '.."
Welcome Change
Those who regard the Army ba a vast, but careless, employer of labour may be surprised to learn that for the past six months the War Office has been applying a test to its man power that Industry has never at- tempted to apply to the capacity of ordinary workers.
This is the most ambitious attempt ever made to find the right man for. the job.
No one pretends that these tests are infallible, but everyone in authority realises that they do prevent an enormous number of men from being pushed into dulles which they are neither mentally nor temperamental. ty ntled to perform.
This is a welcome change from the last war, when a man's fitness for any particular job was less important than his proximity to it.
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Twenty-five years ago, for instance, accomplished pinnist would, ns. likely as not, be 'discovered", with blackened hands in the cookhouse and there may be similar victims this time; but not so many!
The Army to-day takes such a man and attempts to assess his usefulness In modern war-
In what does this consist!". "His knowledge of Beethoven? No. His sense al sound? Not necessarily, Wils hands? Yes definitely.
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You would probably find that pianist 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 knowl 113 are nasessed war are psychology and Intelligence tests, and they are devised by the School of Psychology at Cambridge.
I believe am right in saying that the-Air-Force-first-used them to find. out whether a man should be trained for a Spitüre 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
I watched one of these examina- tions at a training centre for light A.A. gunnor
The men had been drafted to this centre from every branch of civil employment. There were men from vlilages and cities, from factories and felds.
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 huud.
Now the task of the centre is to And out as soon as possible those who are best atted by temperament to man the ten positions on the gun. Number 1 is the detachment com- mander. He must have his wits about him and be able to give orders. Numbers 2 and 3 are in charge of quick the predictor, and require brains and good hands.
Numbers 7 and 8 are on the gun itseif Number 7 alms 11 for ine: Number 8 for elevation. They must be men with good sight and quick physical reaction.
Number 4 loads and Bres 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 shella to Number 4.
Number works the electrical generator and drives one of the lorries. Ho must be a mechanical type.
Nümber 10 is really the second in command, and must be able to con- trol the gun, if he is not using the predictor.
How It Works
Thus you see how many varied qualities are demanded from a per- fect gun team.
Now let us see how psychology Helps to pick these men, t
We went into an Army hut, where about twenty young soldiers were sitting at tables. A sorgoant handed out popers containing groups printed Agures.
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An officer spoke to the men and, after explaining the texts, gave out the first problem:
"If a lieutenant is senior to a general, place a crow under every nine in the first line, but if a gen- erat le senior to a lieutenant cross out all numbers immediately before
The sergeant with a stop-watch timed them, and they went on to the next question:
"You will ace on the paper before you three circles and the Roure X. The 'fiyure X represents ship at aca and the three circies are mines. You have Ave seconds to draw a line from the ships. X, showing its course north of the first two miles and Routh of the third."
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Various problems of this kind, cach one becoming more dieult. set, all of them designed to indicate quickness of brain, common sense, ability, to follow an Instruction and general Intelligence.
Then followed a number of eye and judgment tests-obviously im- portant for A.A, gunners.
The men were given sheets of paper on which were printed six numbered
each and on squares, aquare was printed a triangle, a circle or some
other geometrical shape.
Beneath the circles were perhaps twenty assorted geometrical shapes, some of which corresponded to the shapes on the squares,
More Tests
One minute was allowed-for_the_ men in deelde which shapes corres- ponded.
This was not difficult because the shapes were all the right way up. and could easily be judged by eye. But the next test was more dificult because the shapes, in addition to being more complicated, were upsido down or at an angle different frem 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 draughtmen, or others used to dealing with plans, usually got full marks in One time allowed.
The men were then put throught two ingenious tesis designed to in- dicate lightness of touch and control of machinery.
First, they came out one by one and were shown a state 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 pencil was placed on the track it communicated 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 sides anil setting up a penalising buzz.
No one, I was told, has ever done this with fewer than about twenty buzzes, and the average number is fifty.
By Touch
The second test was even more dificult.
Two gramophone motors, running at different speeds, controlled the revolutions of a roller upon which was printed the silhouette of an aeroplane.
The revolutions of the roller were controlled by a handle which slowed down the faster motor until the tho and motionless roller hung acroplane remained set in the same position; but extremo gentleness of Louch was necessary.
Once the roller was under control it remained so delicately poised that the weight of a butterity on the wheel, would send it spinning off at great speed.
"Buch tests give us something to go on," said the omeer.
They show, for instance, that it would be a waste of man power to train a fellow who has perfect hands as an ammunition dumper, while it would be equally wasteful to expect a man, who cannot do the simplest. teals, to master the intricacies of the predictor or to be a good No. 1 or Number 10.
"But he might be a perfect Num. ber 01
"On the other hand, teats are not averything. Men do not always do themselves fustice: Some, who would
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