ABSTRACT
Any test administrator who has done a group-administered ability, intelligence, or personality test cannot help being both surprised and impressed by the differences between how testees approach their task. With non-timed tests such as attitude or personality batteries, the first person to complete the task may do so in less than half the time that the last person dutifully hands in their booklet. Equally, with timed tests, some testees appear to approach the task with intense earnestness, as if their lives, or at least their careers, depended on it, whereas others appear cavalier, even nonchalant.
