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Creativity Test(flu), Personality, Productivity

Higher Productivity & Less Work Accidents

• ICC Creativity Test: School Smarts, Street Smarts.(G.W.Bush or B.H.Obama)
• Eliminate Work Accidents, and Get Higher Productivity. ICC Performance Test.
• Key factors affect on the Performance Work speed and accuracy.
• Slow but Steady, or Slow and Sloppy ? Finding group character.
• Haste Overshadows Correctness. Recommend'em carefully !
• Kind Enviroment Makes Children Slow. Recent Japanese youngsters.
• World War II affects on Japanese Masculinity. Another Feminist movement.
• Relations of Personality and ICC Performance Test. Reward forecast phenomena ?
• Comments from our Clients: Higher productivity, less accidents
• What's Wrong with This Test ? It's a crime !
• Curing Common Cold Enjoy Early Recovery. No Tamiflu.
• Swine Flu,Bird Flu,SARS Use Mask and Warm Pads : Theory and Practice.
• Contact,References and Cost of Tests.
• Free Tests on High Accidents Workers.
• Find Your Potential of Problem Solving and Problem Recognizing. Free Trial !

Who's Creative ?

Measuring Creativity:ICC Creativity Test

Problem Solving and Problem Recognizing capabilities are measured by Remote Associate Test(RAT) and Evaluation Test which had been suggested by Dr.G.Gordon(*). This original idea has been modified(1986) to hiring ordinal people as well as engineers or researchers.
Cross sectional studies on Japanese industries using the Creativity Test have shown the most creative sectors are fashion designers and some entrepreneurs in technical fields.
Many researchers of leading organizations are excellent at Problem Solving, but only at average at Problem Recognizing capability, some are Smart but don't get things done type.
Several follow-up observations are shown in Comments from our Clients.


(*)Gerald Gordon(Cornell Univ.,SILR),"Scientific Innovation and Creative Potential"
   Lecture at M.I.T.(1967).

Free Trial Test on Creativity is provided at the end of this HP. Much better than a riddle like "How would you move Mt.Fuji ?" at job interview of Microsoft!


W.Poundstone,"Microsoft's Cult of the Puzzle",Little Brown & Co.(2003). 

Where the Smart Goes ? (ICC Creativity Test in Japanese Industries)

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               80%                           Fashion Designers(n=10)
               --                           (Teachers of a design inst.) 
               11                             Think Tank     
               10                             R&D Labs.(Large org.)
Smart and       9 
Get Things      8
Done(AH),% in   7                         Softhouse
job applicants  6                         Educational Inst.
                5              Mfg(head offices)
                4
                3
                2       Mfg(factories)
                1 Waste Treatment
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                 20     25    30    35    40    45    50
                    Average RAT score (Smart Index)

High RAT and High Differential(AH):"Smart and Get Things Done."
High RAT and Low  Differential(AL):"Smart but Don't Get Things Done." [Smart is not enough]
Low  RAT and High Differential(CH):"Not smart and will do stupid things, seemingly without
                                    thinking about them. They soak up time to clean up the mess."
                                   [e.g.The 43 US.President G.W.Bush,"The Decider", wrongheaded]

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Human Factors and Insustrial Accident

Eliminating reckless individuals by ICC Performance Test, a constructing material mfg. firm has realized Zero Industrial Injury for six years on new employees whom screened by our performance test. The firm had wasted so many years on reeducating old employees whom hired with only interview.
Another construction firm is honored by the Ministry of Labor for outstanding safety records.
For many years an old worker had caused so many careless mistakes on the production line, thus they gave him ICC Performance Test.
The result:His working speed is at average but so many mistakes. The firm has convinved him by the result and transfered him succesfully to another job which needs less concentration.
We appreciate your cooperation on Free Tests on High Accident Workers, which is shown in this HP.


   
A terrible train accident killed 107 passengers and injured hundreds in Japan, April,'05.
Thus Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has organized a small group to study on 
human factors and work accidents. We have been invited as one of the group members.

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Performance Test on Different Groups: What are the keys ?

Following comparative studies on the performances of several different groups suggest that the key factors are not race nor country, but educational training at school and home in their child hood.
Those who received higher education, by chance or by choice, get better results.
The firms hired workers with PTx<0.2 only have excellent safety records.

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         I  o   o             Performance Test Results of Three Different Groups
     400 I o     o
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         I o      o                                                           
         I o      o            o:Hotel Job Applicants(Japanese:Jr.College)    
     300 I o       o           x:Non-skilled Workers (Japanese)               
         I o       o   xx      s:Non-skilled Workers (Brazil Born Japanese)   
   Y     I o        ox    x
         I o      x o ssss  x
     200 I o     x  so     s x            Y=%/PTx
         I o    x  s  o     s  x
         I o   x s      o    s   x   
         I o  x s        o     sssssss
     100 I o x s            o       x   sssssssss
         I ox s               o      x            ssssssss
         I o s                   o s  x         xxxxxxxxx  sssssss
         I os                       s   xo xxxx           xxxxx    ssssss                        
       0 Io___________________________________o_________________x_________s
         0    .1    .2    .3    .4    .5    .6    .7    .8    .9    1.0 
                               PTx
 

   ICC Performance Test Results of Eight Different Groups
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Group     L     E1/L (EBI)    E2/L (EBI)   PTx    PTxDev  N    IP(%)    NE(%) 
A        17.7   0.142(0.90)   0.023(0.96)  0.226  0.028   14     0      10
B        18.2   0.119(1.13)   0.011(0.94)  0.188  0.022  183     0      30
C        18.0   0.167 (NA)    0.017 (NA)   0.250   NA     23     0      NA
D        12.6   0.123 (NA)    0.021 (NA)   0.220   NA    213     0      NA
E        15.5   0.264(1.03)   0.024(1.02)  0.355  3.10    47     5      13
F        14.4   0.379(1.30)   0.087(1.35)  0.551  8.95    44    20       5
G        16.1   0.340(1.10)   0.024(1.05)  0.430  0.081   35    10      15 
H        12.5   0.191(1.16)   0.036(1.10)  0.312  0.063   90     0      50 
I         9.0   0.333 (NA)    0.055 (NA)   0.700   NA    653    NA      NA
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A:High RAT scored (Good at problem solving, Japanese.)
B:Five-star-hotel applicants (Jr.College graduates, Japanese)
C:Jr.College students in Barcelona (Spanish)
D:Nurse school applicants (Japanese)
E:Non-skilled workers (Japanese)*                   Large PTxDev (polarized group)
F:Non-skilled workers (Brazil Born Japanese)*       High IP, large PTxDev and EBI>>1
G:Employees (Philippines plant)*                    High IP
H:Job applicants (Thai plant)*                      A little slow but very cautious(NE is 50%)
I:Construction jobb applicants in Latin America     Very poor educational back ground
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*:Same manufacturing firm
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L     : Lines done in five minutes        
E1    : Detection error                     
E2    : Calculation error 
PTx   : Performance Test Index=(1+E1+E2)/L.  Overall performance index of the speed and accuracy.
PTxDev: Deviation of PTx
N     : Sample size
IP    : Those who did illegal procedures in answering, neglect the answering rules.
NE    : Those who answered with "No Error". 
EBI   : Explained below

Slow but Steady, or Slow and Sloppy ? To find error distribution in a group, Error Bias Index (EBI)is introduced.

EBI=(Average value of error per line done of individual)/(Gross average of error per line of the group)
Example:A smallest group of two persons(A,B);slow and fast with various errors
Case   (E/L)A   B     Indv.Ave. X         Gross Ave. G   EBI(X/G)         Error Bias
 1       1/10   2/20  (0.1+0.1)/2=0.1     3/30=0.1       0.1/0.1=1.00     Even 
 2       0/10   3/20  (0+0.15)/2=0.075    3/30=0.1       0.075/0.1=0.75   Slow but Steady
 3       2/10   1/20  (0.2+0.05)/2=0.125  3/30=0.1       0.125/0.1=1.25   Slow and Sloppy
E:error   L:Line done

The groups of EBI>1 have substancial number of slow and sloppy workers; cause of work accidents and 
low productivity. Those groups E and F of large PTxDev which means some workers are quite slow and sloppy. 
Eliminating those sloppy workers, high productivity and less work accidents will be promised. 

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Overevaluated Speed, Overlooked Accuracy

A study on applicants to a school of nursing has shown that high school teachers recommend students with better personalies, but their judgements on performance are not appreciated.
The comparative study was done on applicants with recommendation from their high school and those without it. The recommended group showed more cooperative and positive at the personality test, but the result of performance test was not appreciable; the average speed of the test was higher than the other group, but about 20% of them commited so many mistakes.
Personality may be judged fairly well through daily life, but judging on accuracy of performance is far difficult than the speed of work. Some teachers are just impressed by the speed of work and overlook the accuracy. Thus using scientific methods is highly recommended at accepting students for specific vocational schools, or at employing.


Performance Depends on Life Style

The working speed on Performance Test of recent Japanese youngsters has become slower by ca.15% than the older generations'. Also very wide differences of Performance Test results are observed depend on countries or regions. Those observations suggest the importance of life style, education on the capability of performance.


Relations of Personality and ICC Performance Test

ICC Performance Test measures assigned figure spotting speed and the accuracy. The performance test results are analysed in terms of personality. The test results on Latin Americans are shown in the table below.
Poor performers are imaginative or impulsive people, and hypocritic people gets good at the performance test. The results are quite convincible. For the case of Japanese, however, such relations are not found at all.
This might be related to so called Reward Forecast Systems in Brain;Japanese are longer espective, and Latins are shorter, and the short or long may be affected by education, life style or social customs, albeit a only speculation so far. Substantial number of Latinas gave up and unfinish the five minutes test, and this never happened among Japanese and Spanish(Catalans).
Generally those who get good preformance test are good at knowledge or achievement tests. And higher educated shows better results at ICC Performance Test.
Thus the differences of educational backgrounds for Japanese (vocational school),Spanish(college) and Latinas (construction workers) may be one factor besides the cultural environments: Interesting but complicated phenomena between Personality, Education and Performance.

Personality vs. ICC Performance Test(Latinas, over 700 applicants for construction work)
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PERSONALITY   Hypocritic          AVE.   Passive Touchy      Impulsive          Imaginative

PT Index        0.524             0.697  0.725  0.768         0.844               1.037
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PT Index=(1+Predict Errors+Calculation Errors)/Lines Done   :Smaller is better.

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Changing Masculinity/Femininity among Japanese

It is found that there is very sharp contrast in masculinity and femininity of older generation educated before the World Wor II to the younger generations.

What's Wrong with This Test ?

Before World War II, there was no reliable test on personality.
Air Force of Japan had relied on even palmistry and physiognomyto select
their pilots. During this period of 1920-40, odd offers for finding personality 
were presented as
"Blood type defines personality" by T.Furukawa
"Uchida Kraeppeline Test(UKT)" by Y.Uchida: Delusive mixed-up Performance test
with Personality test. A long history but prctically no proof, a shame of Japan. 
Some idiots still use UKT at entrance examination and hiring employees in Japan!
We could not validate UKT by comparing of UKT results on the two different groups 
at entrance examinations, while our test got several interesting findings in the 
same groups as mentioned in above sections. Compared groups are
(1):Recommended and not recommended by high school teachers.
(2):High scorers and low scorers at the test on fundamental knowledge.

This lousy UKT seems still be used in Japan Railway companies, thus caused that
terrible derailing accident of 107 deaths in April,2005 by a reckless train operator
whose problems could not be found by that criminal UKT. 



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Comments from our Clients

Construction Firm:Using the test sheets,we can select right applicants with great confidence. Honored by the Ministry of Labor for outstanding safe records.
Manufacturing Firm:Employ only those who clear the minimum score at Performance Test, even if they give very good impression at interview. Good results.
Software House:Over a decade experiences result as:
Performance Test:Programming speed doubled and System Enginnering speed several times up by eliminating slow and reckless persons.
Creativity Test:Even high RAT scorers did poor performance if they are non-differential "Smart is not enough." Thus the differential term is very important to get real things done.
Personality Test:Human relations are key factor for computer engineers. Too many "?" answerers are poor performers.
Conclusion:"The low scoreres are non of useful", this is the conclusion with absolute confidence after many years observations.
Think Tank:Have found the low scorers at the Creativity Test can't prepare own work schedules or reports. The Performance Test is useful to check the key capabilities for complicated jobs as well as simple routine work. Good tool to find concentration, reckless or pressure durability.


• REFERENCES

  (A)"Intercultural and Interactive Studies on Personality, Performance and Creativity", 
     Conference of Academy of Intercultural Research,20 March,1998  California U.S.A.
  (B)"Test Systems for Adjustment Problems",24th SIETAR Annual Congress,22 Nov.,1998 Japan
  (C)"Zero Industrial Accident and Performance Test",Annual Conference of JISHA,Oct.1999
  (D)"Finding .",Meeting of Mensa International Japan,Tokyo(2003).
  

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APPLICATION for FREE TESTS

We will provide free tests on two categorized groups of your production line workers.
Group 1:Those of high work acccident records.
Group 2:Those of low work acccident records.
After finishing the tests,pls. send the test sheets back to us along with the individual accident records. The analysed results will be informed you in a couple of weeks after received the filled sheets.
Perfect confidential is guaranteed on the whole process. Those data are used only for statistical analysis for proving the effectiveness of identifying potential trouble makers on production lines. The results are applicable to other fields as medical,traffic or ordinal office works which are very difficult to collect mistakes or mistreatments.

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ICC CREATIVITY TEST (Just for trial)

PROBLEM 1:Find a fourth word which could serve as a specific kind of associative connective link between these disparate words

Time limit: fifteen(15) minutes

surprise_____Christmas_____birthday:


ocean________woman_________fish____:


wheel________electric______table___:


water________cheese________blood___:


life_________gene__________change__:


cake_________blue__________cottage_:


child________step__________language:


cross________carpet________hot_____:


affection____joy___________face____:


head_________plant_________ham_____:


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PROBLEM 2:Evaluate following celebrities

Based on your own judgement;good or bad,or like or hate

No time limit

A.Hitler
1 2 3 4 5

B.Clinton
1 2 3 4 5

H.Clinton
1 2 3 4 5

M.Gorbachev
1 2 3 4 5

B.Yeltzin
1 2 3 4 5

J.F.Kennedy
1 2 3 4 5

V.Putin
1 2 3 4 5

F.Castro
1 2 3 4 5

J.Stalin
1 2 3 4 5

B.Obama
1 2 3 4 5

T.Blair
1 2 3 4 5

G.W.Bush
1 2 3 4 5

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PROBLEM 3:FIND A SIMPLE AND EFFECTIVE METHOD OF EARLY RECOVERY FROM COLD

Hint 1:Rhinovirus invades at nose then throat:"Highly local."
Hint 2:Their growth rate decreases at higher temperature and higher humidity:
        After twenty years unsuccesful trial of culturing the virus, in 1963 they
        found it could growth at 33 C degree(nose temp.) not at 37 C (body temp.).
Hint 3:Immune systems(macrophage etc.) eliminate viruses easily as long as the
        population is small:Easy victory over small number of the enemy.
Hint 4:At favorable conditions viruses can duplicate 100 to 1000 times every several
        hours:Quick action is indispensable. Don't waste the first several hours of
        the infection.
Hint 5:Microbiotics become active after their population exceeds the quorum(quorumsensing)
        Beat'em before reaching the quorum!! 
        Thus the very early stage of infection is the key factor.

Path of Infection:Spanish Influenza virus infected only through the nose of a ferret (W.Smith 1933). An experiment of common cold on human being, done on about 20 couples performed deep kisses, has revealed that the path is not through mouth but nose.
Thus washing hands is effective to avoid the infection. Facing coughing or sneezing is dangerous. Inside a space ship is a red hot zone, since cough mists with viruses and bacteria float for hours under non-gravity condition.

    
German proverb:Cured in two weeks with cold remedy,
                 without it in fourteen days.

ANSWER IS GIVEN AT THE END OF THIS HP

A Report on SARS Syndrome and Treatments Experiences
Prof.Song,China University,HK;Int'nl Conference on SARS, (HK,2003)

First Week (Virus Duplication Phase):To supress the virus duplication speed, use anti-virus agents which have little effects and strong side effects (anemia due to decrease of red cells,etc.).
Second Week (Pneumonia Developing Phase):Steroid or serum therapies as trial & error base.
Recovery Phase:Need a long rehabilitation time.


Thus we may say "Lucky patients are who control the virus duplication speed by simple and safe (no side effects) methods before consulting with doctors". You can find a good method by refering the above four hints, since the virus control scheme seems similar to that of the common cold at early stage of the infection.

Estimation of Infection Developing Temperature of SARS Virus

Data:WHO report on "Survival and Resistance of SARS Virus (4th,May 2003)"


(1):NIID(National Inst. of Infectious Diseases):
30 minutes survival at 56 degree C, and four days at 37 degree C.
(*)Using the data, we found the temperature dependency of survival is ca.1.8 power.
(2):QMH(Queen Mary Hospital,HK)
For 30-37 degree C, minimum survival time is one hour.
(*)This one hour survival must be for at 37 degree C (worst condition for virus.) Combining the two experiments the estimated survival time at 33 degree C is ca.12 hours, which is sufficient for virus duplication and developing the infection.
(3):Differenct Survival Time at 37 degree C ,NIID and QMH
(*)Virus count of NIID is 100 times higher than that of QMH. Thus we think that NIID's corresonds for fully developed infection and QMH's for early stage of the infection.


CONCLUSION

We may conclude that the infectionable temperature of SARS virus is similar to that of common cold virus as 33 degree C. Thus the curing principle is the same, keep the nose humid and higher temperature at very early stage of the infection, no one know if it is SARS or common cold at very early stage. Don't waste time, virus duplicates every minute!
Influenza viruses change so rapidly, but the growth temperature seems remain at the same level. This is very important for the early curing and/or prevention.

Comments from Authorities to the Right Answer

Common Cold Centre(UK):The estimeted temperature looks OK, but the curing method is too simple to make money.
The Chinese Univ.of Hong Kong:Developing a herbal drink for early treatment of viral infection. Your observations are very interesting.
Friend of Ministry of Health & Labour:Appreciate the simple and effective method. Now I can recover from cold in a couple of day.
TV Science Commentator:Seems reasonable, I've introduced the idea to my friends.

Answer to The Problem

At "Cold ?" use a gauze mask immediately to keep the nose warm and humid. Wear it for one or two days, sleeping and/or working.
Setting warm pads on the throat(front and back) is even more effective.


Airborn flu patients should be provided with gauze masks and warm pads to cure or improve during 
the long flight. This is a smart survice for the passengers, don't waste the flight hours.

Typical curing process:You feel common cold phenomena during 20-30 hrs after the infection, then around in 40-50 hrs you would recover the cold.
According to my own experience, this method is valid also for early curing of influenza, albeit curing period of the damaged skin tissue inside nose and throat needs longer time than common cold.
Put a mask and warm pads at the very early stage, then you don't need Tamiflu !

San Francisco City had controlled Spanish Flu by "Wearing Mask" Act in 1918. Now we can use warm
pads around neck as enforced warming which based on Russian tradition, albeit they use fired Vodka. Keeping the nose temperature higher than infectionable temperature was the key factor.
Reference:
Alfred W.Cosby,AMERICA'S FORGOTTEN PANDEMIC,Cambridge Univ.Press('89).

Send your ANSWER. Your Creativity potential will be informed.

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