THE PERMANENCE OF INTERESTS 

 Table 1 



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Experiment 35 



Consider your ability in each of the activities listed in Table 1, as it existed 

 during the last three years of your attendance on the elementary gchool. 

 Bank the activities from 1 to 7 according to your ability in each, marking 

 that activity in which you had most ability 1. Record your ranks under the 

 column headed El. Ability in Table 1. Eecord similarly (under H. S. 

 Ability) the order of ability for you during the H. S. period. Eecord 

 similarly (under C. Ability) the order of ability for you now. 



We have then for each of the hundred a record such as is shown in 

 the case of one of them in Table 2. These data are obviously subject to 



Table 2 



Mathematics 



History 



Literature 



Science 



Music 



Drawing 



Other hand-work 



In Last Three Years of 

 Elementary School 



El. 

 Interest 



3 

 1 

 2 

 4 

 5 

 6 

 7 



El. 



Ability 



3 

 1 



2 

 4 

 5 

 6 



7 



In High School 



H. S. 

 Interest 



3 

 4 

 2 

 1 

 7 

 5 

 6 



H. S. 

 Ability 



2 



3 

 1 

 4 

 5 

 7 



In College 



C 

 Interest 



4 

 1 

 2 

 3 



5 



G 



7 



C. 



Ability 



2 

 1 

 3 

 4 

 7 

 5 

 6 



certain errors of memory, prejudice, carelessness and the like, which 

 will, later, be given due attention. It will be best to consider first what 

 the meaning of the records would be, were each number a perfectly true 

 statement of the relative strength of the interest or ability in question. 

 Consider then this sample record as perfectly true and compute from 

 it the differences between each subject's position for interest in the last 

 three years of the elementary-school period (column 1) and for the 

 high-school period (column 3). 



Other hand work means carpentering, sewing, gardening, cooking, earring, 



etc. 



