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complete. The directions for taking the teat are clear,
making it virtually self-administering.
The Profile is especially helpful in the selection
of personnel in business and industry* It purports to
measure four traits of personality that are ©specially
significant in the daily functioning of the normal person.
They are Ascendency (A), signifying dominance and initiative
in the group situation; Responsibility (R), signifying
persistence in getting a job done; Emotional Stability (E),
signifying &n absence of neurotic symptoms; and Soci-
ability {S}, signifying general gregariousness.
The Profile uses the forced-choice technique and
tetrads, in which all four factors are represented in
each tetrad. The forced-choice type of item consists of
two complimentary and two uncomplimentary phrases from
which the person taking the test selects the one of the
four which is most like his supervisor and the one which
is least like his supervisor. This forced-choice technique
la stated to be less subject to faking and more valid
than the conventional questionnaire method, particularly
for the low-criterion Individuals {2, p. 128),
The reliability of the scores on each of the factors
has been tested by several methods and has been found to
be satisfactory. Using the split-half method in two