| Number known | |||
| Number unknown | |||
| Number doubtful | |||
| abductor | decide | interim | rejoice |
| abeam | deception | lanuginose | rejoin |
| abed | disentomb | lanuginous | rejoinder |
| abet | disentrance | lanugo | rejuvenate |
| amalgamation | disepalous | lanyard | scroll |
| amanuensis | disestablish | matting | scrub |
| amaranth | eschar | mattock | scruff |
| baron | escheat | mattress | scrunch |
| baroscope | escort | maturate | skylight |
| barouche | eschalot | muff | skyrocket |
| barque | filiform | muffin | skysail |
| bottle-holder | filigree | muffle | skyward |
| bottom | filing | mufti | subcutaneous |
| bottomry | fill | page | sub-let |
| boudoir | gourd | pagoda | subdue |
| channel | gout | paid | tenderloin |
| chant | govern | pail | tendinous |
| chanticleer | gown | photograph | tendon |
| chaos | hodman | photographer | tendril |
| concatenate | hoe | photography | tycoon |
| concatenation | hoecake | photo-lithograph | tymbal |
| concave | hog | publication | type |
| conceal | intercede | pudding | virago |
| decemvirate | interdict | puddle | virescent |
| decency | interest | pudgy | virgin |
By adding find the total number of "plus" marks on the applicant's slip.
Multiply this number by 280, and you will then have obtained the applicant's absolute vocabulary.
An absolute vocabulary of twenty thousand words or over may be graded as excellent; 17,500 to 20,000 words, good; 15,000 to 17,500, fair; and below 15,000, poor.
You should not employ as train-dispatcher a person whose time-reactions indicate a tendency to confuse associated ideas. The associated ideas may be related in time, place or a variety of ways, and the memory of one who has an inherent tendency to substitute an associate for the thing itself is a treacherous instrument. The tendency to confuse associated ideas can be measured by psychological tests.
Your own knowledge of the work of the world will suggest other employments besides that of train-dispatcher in which such a test could be used in hiring men to the improvement of the service.
Crime-Detection by Psychological Tests
The employment of psychological tests in the detection of crime is fast supplanting the brutalities of the "third degree."
Thus, for example, by the use of highly sensitive instruments we are able to detect the quickened heart-beat, the shudder, and other evidences of emotion not otherwise discernible, but due to the deliberate presentation of the details and evidences of a crime. Though the subject may not himself be aware of the slightest physical expression