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Grant, Greene, Jackson, Lee, Pike, Travis, and Upton. This distribution is compared with 

 the distribution obtained in Group IV as follows : 



The two distributions correspond fairly closely if D— and D grades are taken together. 

 The first distribution, however, has a much smaller percentage of D— and a larger percentage 

 of D grades than has that of Group TV. The reason for this is that in this distribution the 

 D — cases who were not recalled, about 8,000 in number, were "pro-rated on the individual 

 scale in proportion to the percentage distribution of letter grades." 



Camp Dix (October 31, 1918) submitted a report on the July draft which included a study 

 of 3,127 negroes. One of the conclusions of this report is that "in general the southern negro 

 is as much inferior to the northern negro as negroes are inferior to whites." 



Another summary of reports from camps Funston, Gordon, Grant, and Upton makes a 

 comparison between 14,997 southern and 8,165 northern negroes whose grades are given in 

 these reports. The comparison is based on alpha and beta grades with the small number of 

 individual examinations left out of account. A comparison between the percentage letter- 

 grade distributions thus obtained and those for the fwe northern and four southern States 

 compared in the Hollerith analysis gives the following: 



Source of distribution. 



Summary (four camps): 



Northern negroes 



Southern negroes 



Group V, northern negroes 



Group IV, four States, southern negroes 



Number 

 of 



8,165 

 14,994 

 4,705 

 6,846 



D. 



19.6 

 55.7 

 14.4 

 57.0 



27.6 

 20. 4 

 31.2 

 29.2 



22.1 

 9.8 



25.8 

 9.0 



21.4 

 6.2 



18.0 

 3.4 



c+. 



6.7 

 1.4 



7.2 

 0.7 



B. 



2.3 

 0.4 

 2.7 

 0.2 



0.6 

 0.1 

 0.7 

 0.1 



The only data on colored officers and officers' training camp candidates at present avail 

 able are those contained in a report from Camp Dodge (June 8, 1918). This report presents 

 a comparison of percentage letter-grade distributions of 1,385 white officers below the rank of 

 major, 95 colored officers below the rank of major, and 273 members of the colored officers' 

 training camp, fourth series. Ratings were made on the basis of alpha examination only. 

 The percentage distributions are as follows: 



The distribution of the negro officers' training camp candidates just about corresponds 

 to the distribution of the white draft with somewhat smaller percentages of inferior men among 

 the negro officers' training camp candidates. The negro officers have a larger percentage of 

 superior men, but their percentage of inferior men is as high as that of the colored officers' 

 training camp candidates. 



At Camp Lee the experiment was tried of separating some of the negro recruits on the 

 basis of skin color and comparing the intelligence ratings obtained from the lighter and darker 

 groups. The report (June 6, 1918) describes the experiment as tried on two battalions of 



