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judge of tact, but the chances of this being true are negative. It is the 

 same in any two things you choose ; the correlation is practically zero. 



Thus we may conclude that, whereas certain persons are endowed with 

 better judgment than others, there is nothing that can be pigeon-holed as 

 general judicial capacity, and the fact that a person is good in different 

 kinds of judgment is due to chance only, not to any intercausal relation. 

 There is no correlation whatsoever between the different types of judg- 

 ment. The highest per cent, obtained by any one in the judgment of 

 ethics was 93 per cent., yet that same person was — .28 per cent, in 

 artistic judgment; so we can safely say that there is no general judicial 

 capacity, nor is there any correlation between the different kinds of judg- 

 ment. 



Miss Walton said: The material for this experiment consisted of a 

 series of fifteen possible reactions to a given stimulus. These were type- 

 written on strips of cardboard of approximately uniform size. Tlie sub- 

 jects were instructed to arrange the material in order of merit with regard 

 to their rhythmical, ethical, practical, tactful, or artistic value. 



The material for rhythmical judgment consisted of short stanzas, 

 selected from various poets, ranging from Milton to Kipling; that for 

 artistic judgment of small reprints from various celebrated artists. The 

 practical judgments included a series of budgets prepared for the ex- 

 penditure of a school-teacher's salary, and a list of punishments for the 

 trivial offenses of a small child. 



From the arrangements made by the twenty-five subjects, we estimated 

 the average order. Then we determined the degree of correlation be- 

 tween the average and the individual orders. 



From these statistics, we found that, in the subjects studied there is 

 a greater agreement in ethical judgment than in any other kind. The 

 judgment of art proved to be the poorest, the average correlation with 

 the average judgment being -f-.68 and +.41, respectively. Next in order 

 to the ethical judgment came the judgment of budgets Math an average 

 of +.63. 



Arranged in numerical order, the averages for the various judgments 

 were: etliical, .68; practical (budgets), .63; tact, .68; practical (punish- 

 ments), .48; rhythmical, .42; artistic, .41. 



This would seem to suggest that people, in general, judge most nearly 

 alike on matters which are of general interest and differ most on matters 

 which are purely personal. 



The individuals in the group differed greatly among themselves. In 

 the average for the various materials, they ranged from 36 per cent, 

 correlation with the average to 16 per cent. 



