1 A paper presented to the Conference on Current Research and Concepts related to Personnel Selection and Classification conducted by the Naval Per sonnel and Training Research Laboratory, San Diego, California, on 6-7 October 1970. Preparation of this report was supported in part by a PHS research grant No. M-10006 from the National Institute of Mental Health, Public Health Service.
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