Manual of Mental and Physical Tests: a Book of Directions compiled with special Reference to the Experimental Study of School Children in the Laboratory or Class-room

Abstract

IS psychology to rank among the exact sciences? This is the question which is at once raised when we look into Prof. Whipple's volume. We are reminded of Kant's famous pronouncement that psychology never could be a science, because it was impossible either to apply mathematics to its problems or to perform experiments upon the minds of others. Kant's dictum is a classical instance of the danger of prophesying the impossible. In the book before us the mathematical treatment of mental measurements is discussed in the third chapter, and the rest of the volume is made up of more or less happily devised experiments upon the minds and bodies of other people.

Manual of Mental and Physical Tests: a Book of Directions compiled with special Reference to the Experimental Study of School Children in the Laboratory or Class-room.

By Prof. G. M. Whipple. Pp. xix + 534. (Baltimore, U.S.A.: Warwick and York, inc., 1910.)