Tinker, Miles A., and Baker, Kenneth H. Introduction to Methods in Experimental Psychology. New York-London:  D. Appleton-Century Co., Inc.

This is a student loose-leaf device of some 200 pages into which the aspirants for psychological understanding can make their notes of the course offered at any particular school that would use it.

Experiments in learning, measurements of general and specific aptitudes, of personality and particularly vocational guidance are offered under the guise of scientific methods in psychology.

It is of interest to note that this type of educational procedure seems to have so many adherents in our educational systems and it strikes the reviewer that among the innumerable criticisms of our educational procedures the fallacies of this type of procedure has escaped notice.

Perhaps it is the beam in our own eyes that would be annoyed by the mote of these statistical methods at arriving at psychological understanding. The questionnaire methods of Gallup & Co. are perhaps amateurish efforts in the same frame of reference. To us the whole setup is a bit phoney, but the clamor of the large classes in ‘psychology’ has to be heeded.

Perhaps a discerning student here and there profits. At all events it is a good stunt for the publishers and we wish them a hearty response.