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The Edison questionnaire

 

作者: Paul M. Dennis,  

 

期刊: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences  (WILEY Available online 1984)
卷期: Volume 20, issue 1  

页码: 23-37

 

ISSN:0022-5061

 

年代: 1984

 

DOI:10.1002/1520-6696(198401)20:1<23::AID-JHBS2300200105>3.0.CO;2-K

 

出版商: Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company

 

数据来源: WILEY

 

摘要:

AbstractThe heavily publicized and controversial general information questionnaire developed by Thomas A. Edison in 1921 has remained a neglected topic in the history of the mental test. Widely known throughout much of the nation, the Edison questionnaire influenced the popular recognition achieved by the mental test. At the same time, it contributed to a loss in the mental test's scientific credibility by (1) encouraging the development of a question‐and‐answer craze that became associated with the mental test; (2) stimulating the use of poorly constructed tests employed by businesses; and (3) associating the mental test with Edison's outrageous claim that college graduates were “amazingly igno

 

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