Rating training and experience

As a possible means of evaluating Army officers' merit the Personnel Research Section developed a simple mechanical system of evaluation whereby 4 variables are objectively rated by reference to a set of specified weights. The evaluations made by the system agreed more closely with the consensus of groups of eight competent evaluators than pairs of evaluators agreed with each other in the subjective rating of the officers' entire records. It is suggested that the technique employed could be of considerable service to merit systems when there are in excess of 1000 applicants to be rated.