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Show TO TEST YOUR APPLICATION Hugo Munsterberg Gives a Simple Way to Conduct Really Interesting Interest-ing Experiment. Have your friends the ability (o hold I heir attention, or does it become quickly fatigued? A simple experiment experi-ment will show you. writes Hugo Munsterberg in the Youth's Companion. Compan-ion. Give each person a column from a newspaper, and have each one cross out with a pencil every letter A and every letter R. Keep an eye on your watch, and when half a minute has passed, say "Now," as a signal for each experimenter to make a mark at the word that he has just reached. Keep this up for five minutes, and then count how many A's and how many R's each one marked In the first half-minute, how many in the fifth, and how many in the tenth, and see how many each person overlooked in each half-minute. Some persons will do well at the be-' ginning, but will soon become inattentive. inatten-tive. In the last four half-minutes they will mark few letters, and overlook over-look many. Others will do better in the second and third half-minute than In the first, and their attention will be sharper at the end than at the beginning. |