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indirect as their publication is forbidden under penalty. These 
examples are taken from Terman^s The Measurement of Intel- 
ligence. 
First, the ^'dissected-sentence’’ test. The sentences are to be 
put in right order. 
(a) For the started an we country early at hour. 
(b) To asked paper my teacher correct I my. 
(c) A defends dog good his bravely master. . . . . false true 
In the corresponding army test, which contained false as well 
as true statements, the men had not only to rearrange the dis- 
arranged words but had also to indicate whether true or false, 
by underlining as in sentence (c) above. 
A second test is that of detecting absurdities,’’ used by the 
army also, only with modified content and with somewhat differ- 
ent instructions. In the Army, those taking the test were told 
to write the letter before each of the statements which could 
not possibly be true. 
(a) A man said: ‘T know a road from my house to the city which 
is downhill all the way to the city and downhill all the way back home.” 
(b) An engineer said that the more cars he had on his train the 
faster he could go. 
(c) Yesterday the police found the body of a girl cut in eighteen 
pieces. They believe that she killed herself. 
The following test, framed for testing salesman, and closely 
parallel to one of the army tests, is given by Bruce Barton in 
the American Magazine for March, 1919, There is a time limit 
set as an index of mentality of different grades. For example, 
^To take less than 100 seconds is to be in the superior 25 per 
cent.” The individual is graded also on accuracy. The test 
plainly calls for variegated mental behavior, such as close obser- 
vation, the ability to hold several things in mind at once, careful 
and quick use of one’s judgment, etc. 
With your pencil make a dot over any one of these letters F G H I J 
and a comma after the longest of these three words: boy mother girl. 
