“知人”是中国古代重视人才鉴别与选用的体现。“知人”作为一种思想它蕴涵着现代心理测量的理论基础,作为一种实践活动它与现代心理测量有着相似的内容框架,作为一种技术它为现代心理测量提供了方法与手段的基本范式。 “Knowing people” is the embodiment of the importance of talent identification and selection in ancient China. As a kind of thinking, “knowing people” implies the theoretical basis of modern psychological measurement. As a practical activity, it has a similar content framework with modern psychological measurement. As a technology, it provides a basic paradigm for methods and means of modern psychological measurement .