From the historical perspective I find this to be interesting.
Devoted readers go and take this test. See if you would have been more or less susceptible to shell shock during that period of the Great War from over one-hundred years ago. Used by the U.S. Army as a means of evaluating personnel presumably for assignments.
"Woodworth Psychoneurotic Inventory."
Shell shock. Emotional instability.
Introduction
"The WPI is often credited as the first personality test. It was designed by the United States Army during World War I to identify solders at risk for shell shock. It measures one scale: emotional instability."
"The test was very popular for many years but eventually fell out of style, seemingly in the 1930s."
Procedure
"The WPI consists of 116 yes or no questions. It should take most people ten to fifteen minutes to complete."
"Being one hundred years old, the inventory makes references that may not be immediately clear to modern takers, clarifying information has been added in brackets to this version."
PERSONALLY AND WITHOUT FURTHER CLARIFICATION MY WPI SCORE RELATIVELY POOR AS DEFINED. I WOULD NOT DO WELL IN A COMBAT ARMS UNIT?
"Pull yourself together man. This soldier's heart, combat fatigue, shell shock, PTSD is all in your head. Just snap out of it and get on with your duty."
coolbert.
