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It should be borne in mind that the negroes are all English-speaking, and that since they 

 were allowed to take alpha they must have had some claim to literacy. The result seems to 

 suggest that " near-literacy " may be the reason for a good many alpha failures. 



The redistribution of beta failures by point scale and Stanford-Binet examinations (5 and c, 

 fig. 23) shows much less difference between the results of the first and second examinations. 

 In the first group of 340 cases examined by beta and the point scale examination the percentage 

 of D— grades decreases from 96.8 per cent to 67.6 per cent, and the percentage of men making 

 grades higher than D — increases from 3.2 per cent to 32.4 per cent. In the second group of 337 

 cases examined by beta and the Stanford-Binet examination the percentage of D— grades 

 decreases from 91.7 per cent to 77.1 per cent, and the percentage of men making higher grades 

 than D — increases from 8.3 per cent to 22.9 per cent. 



Table 270. — Variables: Alpha score X beta score. Groups IV and V: Colored draft. 

 For men who took alpha and beta only, or alpha, beta, and an individual examination. 



Table 271. — Variables: Beta score X score on Stanford-Binet examination. Groups IV and V: Colored draft . 

 For men who took Stanford-Binet examination following beta, or following alpha and beta. 



Table 272. — Variables: Beta score X score on point scale examination. Groups IV and V: Colored draft. 

 For men who took point scale examination following beta, or following alpha and beta. 



