Show KNOW THYSELF by dr george D greer CAN rOU JUDGE intelligence AND CHARACTER FROM photographs W HEN an employer selects ap cants on the basis of photographs he is about as likely to get intelligent employees as he would if he closed his eyes and selected them by chance according to studies made by prof donald laird of colgate university dr laird took ten photographs of people whose intelligence ranged fro from M very high to very low and had a h undred hundred pe people 0 rate the ten pictures on the basis of intelligence shown in the pictures the result showed that it is impossible to judge either intelligence or character by a photograph alone I 1 have tried similar experiments in my own university classes with similar results it is like trying to read character from the hand or the shape of ones head copyright service |