Psychometric Testing Quotes

I fantasized about being a psychology major when I first started school, and I took a handful of Psych 101 classes.

Early in my career, I was disappointed that psychoanalysis was not becoming more empirical, was not becoming more scientific. It was primarily concerned with individual patients. It wasn't trying to collect data from large groups of people who have been analyzed.

My grandad, he has his doctorate in psychology.

My wife was a licensed psychologist by profession and a college professor of psychology.

Like all science, psychology is knowledge; and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind.

I am a Professor of Psychology at Palo Alto University and a Research Psychologist at the Stanford University School of Medicine.

Psychologists really aim to be scientists, white-coat stuff, with elaborate statistics, running experiments.

A technical survey that systematize, digest, and appraise the mid century state of psychology.

I might have been a psychologist. It interests me.

And so, you can do hundreds and hundreds of studies showing a general factor and just so long as you restrict your populations, your testing materials and the kinds of situations you look at, you can keep finding the same wrong thing again and again.

I am a psychologist. That's my training.

From the beginning, I got all Emirates cabin crew applicants psychometrically tested. Those who didn't want to be nice to others got rejected.

My background is in psychology - that's what my bachelor's degree is from, and my specialization.

The president of a TV network generously agreed to take his company's aptitude test, a test required of all the personnel. He did badly. As a result he was in a sullen mood for the rest of the day. When he got home that night, his wife asked why he looked so grouchy. I took the company's aptitude test this morning. What did it show? asked the wife. It showed, boomed the executive, that such tests are idiotic. That's what it showed.