Tests for originality.

The purpose of the investigation was (1) to adapt and devise tests for originality, and (2) to determine by trial the relative value of these tests as a means of ranking the members of a group in terms of originality.The selected tests were applied to 100 students drawn from all classes in Northwestern University and also to one inventor of international reputation.After preliminary experimentation with a variety of tests, the following twelve were selected and modified for subsequent use: ( 1) Word-Building; (2) Picture Writing; (3) Analogues; (4) Original Analogues; (5) the Chain Puzzle; (6) the Triangle Puzzle; (7) Royce's Ring; (8) the Completion Test; (9) Economic Prophecies; (10) the Code Test; (11) the Invention for Sheet Music; and (12) Novel Situations.Of these, Picture Writing, Original Analogues, Economic Prophecies, the Invention for Sheet Music, and Novel Situations were devised in the Psychological Laboratory of Northwestern University; the remainder were adaptations or modifications of tests previously used elsewhere.A time-keeping device, which made it possible for the subjects to record their own time, was constructed.The "minute hand" was a series of cards numbered from 0 to 10.These were sus-Sample card Card 2 A means country C means enclosure B means people D means man AB means democracy CD means what ?(noun) Card 3 Card 4 E means to take G means sun F means woman H means horizon EF means what ?(verb G means what ?(noun) H Card5 /means to quiet J means heart JJ means what ?(verb)