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The results were tlien obtained l)_v averaging the figures in each of the 

 thirty-six columns and the correlations between the different abilities 

 found by the method of rank differences. 



The correlations run as high as .788 for limerick and absurdity; .737 

 for limerick and directions, and decrease very gradually to three negative 

 correlations which are almost zero : name\y, — .032 for words and me- 

 chanical puzzle; — .062 for mathematics an3 ingenuity and — .1(50 for 

 mechanical and ingenuity. 



The following arc the correlations of each test with the other eight 



tests : 



Limerick 629 



Poem 575 



Directions 525 



Absurdity 499 



Logic 493 



Words 366 



Matliematics 325 



Ingenuity 285 



Mechanical puzzle 210 



The limerick and poem lead. Mathematics stands low in the scale as a 

 representative of ingenious capacity and probably involves a relatively 

 independent trait. The mechanical and ingenuity puzzles on account of 

 their concreteness are not so likely to correlate well with the other tests, 

 which involve mostly ideational processes. 



Mr. Myers continued a study of appetite which was begun by one of 

 his pupils of Juniata College, Miss Margaret Baker. Her questionnaire 

 which she applied to 75 students Avas extended by the writer to other 

 subjects of college, normal school and high-school grade, making a total 

 of 483 subjects — 258 boys and 225 girls. From the twenty foremost likes 

 and the twenty leading dislikes secured by the questionnaire the names 

 of forty things to eat were printed on slips of paper, shuffled, and pre- 

 sented to each of fifty men and fifty women who were asked to rank the 

 forty things in the order in which they were liked, and to indicate, in 

 case any were disliked, where the dislikes began. Three weeks after the 

 first test the same subjects were surprised by the request to arrange again 

 the items in the order in which they were liked after the manner of the 

 first test. 



With 25 of the items another random list was selected and with it 50 

 boys and 50 girls of the high school and the same number of boys and 

 girls in the grammar schools of Tyrone, Pennsylvania, were tested. As 

 with the college students, a second record after three weeks was obtained. 



Only a part of the results of the college subjects were reported. It wa& 



