Review of: Aptitudes and Aptitude Testing

Reviews the book "Aptitudes and Aptitude Testing," by W. V. Bingham . The first major section of the book shows aptitude measurement to be a measuring of present performance as symptomatic of potentiality and suitability, with predictions to be made only in terms of probability. Later chapters in this section are concerned with the nature of individual differences and with intelligence tests, interest tests, and achievement tests as measures of aptitude. In the second section, after an introductory chapter, the author reviews a half-dozen major categories of occupations, beginning with manual occupations and concluding with the professions. The concluding section of the volume is devoted to the practice of testing.