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When awarded his PhD in 1917, Thurstone became an instructor at Carnegie Tech. Also that year he served with Edward L. Thomdike and Arthur S. Otis as the Statistical Unit appointed by Robert M. Yerkes* to skechers shape ups evaluate tlie pilot testing of the Army Alpha, which then was immediately adopted by the reebok Army Surgeon General lo lest nearly 2 million soldiers in the following 18 months. In 1918. Thurstone hccamc assistant professor, the next year associate professor, the reebok shoes next year professor and chair of tlie Department of Applied Psychology. From 1919 to 1923, lie developed a series Reebok Shoes of tests of intelligence, clerical skills, engineering aptitude, and ingenuity, often lo meet needs reebok easytone in both the military and the civil service.
In 1923. easytone the department of applied psychology al Carnegie Tech was abolished. Funded by tl>c Camegie Corporation of New York. Thurstone spent 1923 to 1924 in Washington, DC at ihe Institute for Governmental Research. His charge was to recommend ways lo improve U.S. civil service examinations.
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Tlie Institute for Governmental Research happened lo share its office building on Dupont Circle with the American Council on Education (ACE). The ACE had begun to develop aptitude tests for high school students and college freshman to
THURSTONE AND SPEARMAN
What did Thurstonc really think about Spearman's contribution? In 1933. Thurstonc wrote:
llie student who begins his study of factor analysis should read Spearman's early papers. His book. The Abiliiiet of Mini, has its main content in the appendix that
should have been expanded lo l»e the book itself We must distinguish between
Spearman's method of analyzing the inlcicomlations of a set of variables for a single common factor and his theory that intelligence is such a common factor which lie calls * " (Thurstonc. 1933. p. iii)