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Fig. 8 is a profile graph showing the average performance 
of both groups in each individual test, for both males and fe- 
males. It will be seen that both groups scored comparatively 
low in test 4, which is a test in the interpretation of proverbs. 
The language element, however, and English idiomatic expres- 
sion is too considerable an element in this test to make it a fair 
one for Filipinos. In spite of this fact the results obtained with 
this test bear a high correlation with the general intelligence 
score. The same is true of test 7, completing analogies. The 
results obtained with test 8, arranging disarranged sentences, 
and with test 6, discriminating between geometric figures, show 
a lesser correlation with the general intelligence score. 
In regard to the relation between the scores of the men and 
those of the women it appears that the same is true in the 
Philippines as elsewhere. It will be seen that the difference is 
least in the tests which involve memory to any large extent. 
Yerkes and Burtt concluded— 
College men with respect to the majority of the intellectual fune- 
tions measured by the point scale method, rank higher than college women 
+ * * This superiority of the men is especially marked in tests which 
involve reasoning and other fairly complex thought processes.” 
PART THREE 
Part three of this paper gives the results of the application 
of the Yerkes point scale *! to a number of school children in 
the Provincial Intermediate and High School at Cuyo, Palawan. 
The point scale consists of twenty separate tests, each of 
which involves the mental functions enumerated in Table 10. 
The point scale was slightly adapted as follows: 
Test 9: “Orange” substituted for “apple,” for the apple is 
not a tropical fruit; “iron” substituted for “glass,” for glass 
is not common in Cuyo. Test 14: “Cuyo” substituted for “Bos- 
ton,” and “ocean” for “river,” for Cuyo cannot boast of a river. 
Test 15: “Missing the boat” substituted for “missing the train,” 
for few Cuyono children had ever seen anything but the picture 
of a train. Test 20: “Foot is to shoe” substituted for “hand is 
to glove,” for gloves are about as common in Cuyo as fans in the 
Arctic region. 
Cuyo is a small island, some 8 by 11 kilometers, in the Sulu 
* Yerkes and Burtt, The Relation of Point-Scale Measurements of 
Intelligence to Educational Performance in College Students, School and 
Society (May 5, 1917). 
“Yerkes, Bridges, and Hardwick, A Point Scale for Measuring Mental | 
Ability. Baltimore (1915). 
