Note on Experience in Ability to Predict Retardates' Job Choice

Abstract

A group of retardates ranked their preferences for six vocational situations. Three discriminable preference groups emerged. Three normal groups, attendants at a state institution, upper-division college students, and vocational rehabilitation counselors, ranked the same situations as they thought retardates would rate them. Analysis of the data suggested a hierarchy of ability to approximate the retardates' preferences, specifically, rehabilitation counselors (high), attendants and students (low) in that order.