Stafford Northcote and Charles Trevelyan · 1854
Report on the Organisation of the Permanent Civil Service
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Q12JUDGMENT
Can numerical measures adequately determine a person's fitness for a position of responsibility?Yes. examination selects the fit. Recommends that entry to the civil service be decided by open competitive examination instead of patronage.
Formal title and 1854 date from Wikipedia and UK Parliament report; a PDF exists at civilservant.org.uk (not a listed repository, not opened).