| Sumario: | The article focuses on a correlation coefficient of .999 between a measure of occupational interest and one of occupational satisfaction. Any correlation of this size deserves careful study. This one in particular should be carefully scrutinized, both because it is in an area of considerable practical concern. Unfortunately, the results reported by psychologist Harold Geist will not stand close scrutiny as the paper was laced with statistical errors of a most serious nature. Perhaps the most serious, or at least the most obvious, error was the presentation of a correlation of .748 between the Artist interest scale and a Satisfaction Scale C, "Changing Jobs" when it had already been reported that the standard deviation of this Satisfaction Scale C was 0.0. Unfortunately, this error was "replicated" by the reported correlation of .832 between the Artist interest scale and a Satisfaction Scale D, "Comparison with other people on liking jobs" as this latter scale also, according to Geist's report, had a standard deviation of 0.0.
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