The average salary of an NFL player works out to considerably less when not considering the top earners, but these players still make hundreds of thousands of dollars each. Bloomberg Businessweek says the average salary of an NFL player in 2011 was $1.9 million. The median salary was $770,000.
Timeline. A Timeline of Psychological Testing. 1  2200 B.C.E. 2  Proficiency testing begins in China. 3  The Emperor evaluates public officials every third year. 4  1800 B.C.E.5  Babylonians develop astrology in order to interact with the gods and predict the future.6  Greeks later redefine astrology to predict and describe personality. Timeline of Psychological Testing. 1  2200 B.C.E. 2  1800 B.C.E. 3  500 B.C.E. 4  400 B.C.E. 5  400 B.C.E. 6  175 B.C.E. 7  500 A.D. 8  1200 A.D. 9  1265 A.D. 10  1550 A.D. 11  1698 A.D. Juan Huarte publishes The Tyral of Wits, the first book to propose a discipline of assessment. 12  1770 A.D. 13  1823 A.D. 14  1869 A.D. Sir Francis Galton publishes a study of heredity and genius which 15  ... 1
Although the widespread use of psychological testing is largely a phenomenon of the 20th century, it has been noted that rudimentary forms of testing date back to at least 2200 B.C., when the Chinese emperor had his officials examined every third year to determine their fitness for office (Gregory, 1992).s such, the administrator of the test will usually comment that it is a test of ones most frequent preference or dominant tendency as apposed to a rigid diagnosis. David Keirsey, a renowned psychologist born in Oklahoma in 1921, modified the test by organising the 16 personality types into four main temperaments.