Correspondence, 1947-49

File — Box: 52, Folder: 1-4

Identifier: VIII

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Sub-Series: A pamphlet by Dean R. Brimhall and Arthur S. Otis, also printed in the Journal of Applied Psychology, 32 (1948). Brimhall and Otis researched the voting records of all senators and representatives in the United States Congress. On the basis of these voting records, they could predict how a legislator would vote on issues over a long period of time. In this article the authors set up a table with a range of 1-7 with 1 representing the most liberal and 7 the most conservative. Using this table and the voting records, Brimhall and Otis showed that a legislator's voting pattern seldom deviated from his previous record as a liberal, conservative, or moderate.

Dates

1947-49

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