STANFORD UNIVERSITY

STANFORD, CALIFORNIA

GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

Psychological Testing Report

On

James Gavin Embry

Organization:     Pacific Coast Engineering Company

                             Oak Street and Clement Avenue

                             Alameda, California

Age at Test: 30 years

Mental Ability (General):  On a test designed to measure general ability to reason, to learn, to think, to remember, etc., Mr. Embry’s performance was in the highest one percent of a representative sample of college students in four-year colleges and universities.  Within the test there was no significant difference in performance level between the quantitative (numerical) and linguistic (verbal) factors.  Nor was there any difference between the reading effectiveness score and the other (quantitative, verbal, total) scores.  Within the reading effectiveness score there was no difference in performance level between those parts having to do with reading of quantitative materials and those having to do with the reading of verbal materials. The overall performance places Mr. Embry in the highest one-tenth of one per cent of the general adult population in this country.

Mental Ability (Abstract Reasoning): Mr Embry’s performance on a test of high-level, abstract (“pure”) reasoning indicates that as compared to a general group of students in graduate study at leading universities he ranks in the upper three per cent of the group.  As compared to a group of graduate students in engineering (all fields, one-third Masters candidates and two-thirds PhD candidates) he again scored in the top one per cent of the group.  As compared to graduate students in Business Administration (two-thirds Masters candidates, one-third PhD candidates) he again scored in the top one per cent of the group.  As compared to the general adult population of this country, as usual he scores in the highest one tenth of one per cent.

Mental Ability (critical-Logical Reasoning):

Mental Ability (Practical Judgement):

Supervisory Knowledge:

In the interest of the economy for both time and space, let it simply be said that in the three measurement areas noted above, Mr Embry’s scores range from an upper position of one tenth to one hundredth of one percent to a [low] of the upper one per cent of any group of any group it is currently possible to compare him with.  If the reader has any questions concerning these matters, it is suggested that he contact Mr. Embry, who will undoubtedly be able to furnish eminently satisfactory answers.

Vocational Interests:  The primary and overriding interest element in Mr. Embry’s pattern of measured vocational interests takes the form of a very general Administrative-Supervisory-Managerial interest which extends completely across every major type of occupation represented on the interest measuring instrument used.  There are, it is true, some slight but probably insignificant discriminations to be made in absolute concentration of interest scores within functional interest areas, showing Social Service (service to people) as his primary concentration, followed in descending order by concentrations in Applied, Professional, Technical, Semi-Technical (artisan-like, craftsman-like), Scientific—Technical, Verbal-Linguistic (written word manipulation), Business detail, Business Contact (business persuasion, sales, public relations, etc.)  As can be seen from the extreme heterogeneity of Mr. Embry’s measured vocational interests, it is highly likely that he will have to (1) go into some sort of business for himself, in which he can exercise adequately in all functional areas, or (2) he will have to somehow rise to general management levels within a larger business or industrial organization, in order that he may find adequate outlet for the generalized managerial interest pattern that is so broadly supported by evident interest in every measurable occupational  activity area.  Fortunately, Mr. Embry’s wide-ranging interest pattern, which would look most appropriate at high managerial levels, it (sic) accompanied by an occupational aspiration level that would appear to draw him upward to that same level.

Personality Characteristics: Unless Mr. Embry’s notable intellectual capacities have allowed him to neutralize a very cantankerous personality test with almost complete success; it would appear that he is about as normal and healthy person as it has been the writer’s good fortune to encounter in the analysis of a good many hundreds of these personality assessments.  That is not to say that Mr. Embry will not have faults; he undoubtedly has, however, it is likely that such faults are rather directly the result of simple inadequacy of experience or lack of opportunity to encounter the requisite information for operation in a particular situation.  The personality test results reflect an almost optimum blend and balance of independence-knowledgeable dependence, energy and activity-constraint and caution, ambitions and drive-perspicacity and tolerance, realism-optimism, cooperation-initiative, impulsiveness-thoughtfulness, mental toughness-sensitivity, generosity-enlightened selfishness.  In short, it is difficult to envision that vocational goal which would be justifiably denied Mr. Embry either because of inadequate intellectual capacities or inappropriate personal characteristics.