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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. viii, 163, [1] pages. Illustrations. Formulae. Fold-out. Appendix A and B. Index. Ink and pencil writing on fep. Cover has some wear and soiling. Robert Ladd Thorndike (1910 - 1990) was an American psychometrician and educational psychologist who made significant contributions to the analysis of reliability, the interpretation of error, cognitive pen pene of students in various countries. He served in the Air Corps in WWII. He conducted research in both animal and human psychology. With Irving Lorge, Thorndike published a standardized test in 1954 which later became, with the collaboration of Elizabeth Hagen, the widely used Cognitive Abilities Test. He was one of the first to write about cluster analysis. Thorndike was a professor at Columbia University from 1936 to 1976. He received his B.A. from Wesleyan University in 1931, and his Ph.D. (Psychology) from Columbia University in 1935. He was president of the American Educational Research Association and the Psychometric Society. The present report was undertaken to summarize the procedures which were developed and the problems which were encountered in the association Psychology Program of the Army Air Forces, and more particularly in that portion of it which was concerned with the selection and classification of personnel for aircrew assignment. An attempt was made to record the procedures and problems which seemed of general and continuing interest, so that the techniques and insights achieved in the war just past may be available to future students and workers in the field. The procedures, techniques, and insights which are reported here were the joint achievement of a great many people scattered throughout the Aviation Psychology Program. Except for a few brief sections written by Lt. Col. A. P. Horst, the report was written by the editor.…