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PSYCHOLOGICAL EXAMINING IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY. 



Table 245. — Percentage distribution of letter grades by camp. Group IV: Negroes. 



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Table 246. — Percentage distribution of letter grades by camp. Group V: Negroes. 



A graphic comparison by camps of percentages of superior and inferior negroes with 

 percentages of superior and inferior whites is given in figure 20. The data for this chart on 

 the whites are, taken from table 199, of chapter 4, those on the negroes from table 245, which 

 includes only the negroes of Group IV. If the camps are compared with the result for all 

 camps, it appears that there is a fair correspondence between the camps which are "better" 

 and "poorer" in negro intelligence and those which may be similarly designated as "better" 

 and "poorer" in white intelligence. Camps Funston and Taylor, however, are relatively 

 somewhat better and Upton and Dodge relatively somewhat poorer in white than in negro 

 intelligence. The small number of cases of camps Lewis and Devens makes the comparisons 

 in which they are involved somewhat doubtful. It should also be remembered that the cases 

 of Group IV were selected to represent the negro population by State and not the negro draft 

 by camp. Thus the number of cases in a given camp is not necessarily proportional to the 

 number of negroes in that camp. Incidentally it should be noted that owing to the fact that 

 the negro draft quotas were shifted around a great deal it is not certain that the negroes and 

 whites of any given camp were drawn from the same localities. It will also be remembered 

 here that a large part of the inferior negroes are men who made D— on group examination 

 and who were not recalled. If they had been recalled and reexamined the percentages of 

 inferior men would presumably have been somewhat lower. 



Hollerith sortings were also made with the purpose of studying negro intelligence by 

 State. The method of selection of the cases has already been described, and attention has 

 been called to the great variation in the number of cases in the different States. Table 247 

 gives the percentage letter-grade distribution by State for the negroes of Group IV. The results 

 of the Hollerith sortings are given in tables 248 to 267. In Group IV the tables have been cut 

 down by the elimination of 24 States which had less than 100 cases. Table 247, which includes 

 all the States, shows how atypical the distributions are in some cases where the number of 

 cases is small. The percentage distributions for the five northern States which constitute 

 Group V will be found in table 268. Comparing the distributions of this table with those of 

 the corresponding States of Group IV, it appears that the distributions by letter grade for the 

 different States is approximately the same for the two groups. 



