Research Catalog

Title

Intelligence in the United States : a survey--with conclusions for manpower utilization in education and employment / by John B. Miner, Ph.D.

Author

Miner, John B.

Publication

New York : Springer Publishing Company, 1957 [©1956].

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Details

Description

xii, 180 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

"Dr. Miner's study of intelligence testing and the concept of intelligence appears at a time when the validity of existing standards is being challenged. The book gives substance to the growing debate; it also reviews the status of contemporary investigations of intelligence and provides a bibliography of the literature since 1940. The theory of intelligence, as formulated by the author, postulates that native intelligence depends for its development on the availability of learning opportunities and on individual motivation. The theory is employed in a nationwide survey of a representative sample of the U.S. population; methods of public opinion research were used in administration the intelligence test, a brief but highly reliable measure of verbal ability. The 1500 persons tested march the U.S. population aged ten and over. The author investigated the significance of their intelligence scores in relation to education, sex, marital status, age, race, occupation, geographical area, religion, class identification and city size. An original contribution of the book is the formulation of models of the educational system and occupational structure that permit detailed estimates of the extent to which intellectual resources are being wasted in this country. Suggestions for full use of these resources are made throughout the book and, especially, in the concluding chapter" -- Dust jacket.

Alternative Title

A survey with conclusions for manpower utilization in education and employment

Subject

• Ability > Testing
• Intelligence levels > United States
• Manpower policy > United States
• Intellect
• Ability
• Intelligence
• Aptitude
• Workforce
• Aptitude Tests
• Intellect
• Ability
• Manpower policy
• Intelligence levels
• Ability > Testing
• Intelligentie
• United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-164).

Contents

Intelligence : its nature and measurement -- Verbal ability and the social system -- The survey -- Social stratification : the major factor in intelligence differences -- Intelligences as related to other variables -- The utilization of intellectual resources in the educational system -- The labor force and manpower utilization -- Implications for vocational guidance, personnel management, and education -- References -- Appendix : occupations classified by level of intellectual demand -- Index.

LCCN

57007150

OCLC

• ocm00217546
• 217546
• SCSB-9608483

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library