CHAPTER 6. 



RELATION OF INTELLIGENCE EATINGS TO NATIVITY. 



Out of some 94,000 men of the white draft whose records were used in the principal 

 sampling for Hollerith analysis approximately 13,200 reported that they were born in a foreign 

 country. If these figures can be taken as an index of the total Army population, it means that 

 about 18 per cent of the Army was foreign born. The 1910 census gives the percentages of 

 white foreign-born individuals in the United States as 14.2 per cent. The approximate agree- 

 ment of the census figures with those obtained in the sampling is an indication of the representa- 

 tiveness of our sample. 



There is a wide variation in the number of men coming from different countries. Italy, 

 with over 4,000 men, forms nearly one-third of the total group. From Russia there were over 

 2,300 men. On the other hand, there were many countries from which less than 10 men were 

 reported. In the comparison of the intelligence ratings of the foreign born only those countries 

 were considered from which 100 or more cases were reported in the group selected by the 

 sampling. The number of men included under this basis of selection is all but about 800 of 

 those reporting foreign birth. Table 213 shows the type of examination that was taken by 

 these foreign-born men, and in table 214 the same results are expressed on a percentage basis. 



Table 207. — Variables: Alpha score X nativity. Groups I, II, III: White draft {foreign born). 



For all men who took alpha only. 



693 



