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Wartime army psychological testing of recruits stimulated popular interest in mental measurements and created a favorable opportunity to extend their use in education.

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Evidence · 1 study · theoretical r1 · q1
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q1 i? The editorial asserts that military psychological testing during the war caught the popular imagination and made the public newly favorable to mental measurement in education. → J. C. B 1919

Evidence

J. C. B 1919

J. C. B. (1919). Measurements in education [Editorial]. The Journal of Educational Psychology, 10(1). https://archive.org/search?query=Journal+of+Educational+Psychology+1919

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The editorial's own interpretive argument (type e): it claims the army's wartime testing program, applied to recruits, raised public esteem of psychology. It offers no data, stating the testing "caught the popular fancy and stirred the imagination of the man in the street."

"One of the incidental by-products of our military activity has been the stimulation of popular interest in mental measurements."

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type claim
id wwi-army-testing-popularized-mental-measurement
title Wartime army psychological testing of recruits stimulated popular interest in mental measurements and created a favorable opportunity to extend their use in education.
description Wartime army psychological testing of recruits stimulated popular interest in mental measurements and created a favorable opportunity to extend their use in education.
status review
evidence_strength weak
newest_evidence 1919
generated by process:wiki-ingest on 2026-10-23
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sources 1 — j-c-b-1919

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