Sentence units of a completion test differ greatly in completion time, ranging from 12.8% of total test time for unit 1 down to 3.4% for unit 11.¶

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q2 i? The average times of 25 subjects for the eleven sentence units, as percentages of total test time, vary from 12.8% (unit 1) to 3.4% (unit 11). → Walter R. Miles and Julian E. Butterworth 1912

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Walter R. Miles and Julian E. Butterworth 1912¶

Walter R. Miles and Julian E. Butterworth. (1912). A Tentative Standardization of a Completion Test. The Journal of Educational Psychology, pp. 329-336. https://www.google.com/search?q=%22A+Tentative+Standardization+of+a+Completion+Test%22

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Timed laboratory administration of the completion test to 25 students or faculty at the State University of Iowa yielded per-unit time percentages (unit 1: 12.8%; unit 11: 3.4%), showing "the average of the times of the twenty-five subjects" differed markedly across units. Mean variations were large, the authors noting the need for more observers.

"There are eleven of these sentence units in this test, and the average of the times of the twenty-five subjects necessary to complete each unit are as follows, in percentages of the time required for the whole test"

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