Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In experimental psychology, a set of cylinders, of like appearance but different weight, used for the determination of the differential sensitivity (passive pressure or lift).

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Examples

  • A sufficient number of test-weights must be used, or trials made, to eliminate the influence of chance.

    Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development Francis Galton 1866

  • I use test-weights that mount in a series of "just perceptible differences" to an imaginary person of extreme delicacy of perception, their values being calculated according to Weber's law.

    Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development Francis Galton 1866

  • In other words, he would never be likely to put one of the test-weights more than one step out of its proper place.

    Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development Francis Galton 1866

  • It will be noted that the conversion of results obtained by the use of one series of test-weights into what would have been given by another series, is a piece of simple arithmetic, the fact ultimately obtained by any apparatus of this kind being the "just distinguishable" fraction of real weight.

    Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development Francis Galton 1866

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