MICHIGAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. 69 



One must conclude from this wide distribution of abilities that education 

 in the grades and high school has done little or nothing to eliminate differences 

 of performance capacity. It begins to look increasingly like performance or 

 achievement is, in its last analysis, a function of a certain configuration of 

 abilities, which are inbred and which are influenced but slightly if at all by 

 education and training. If this be true it is bound to have a far-reaching 

 effect upon the future of training in colleges and universities. 



The same group of tests applied to over one hundred members of a Rotary 

 Club and to fifty mature women school teachers in a certain city showed the 

 same wide ranges of abilities. Lack of space prevents showing the figures and 

 tables. 



Western State Normal School, Kalamazoo, Michigan. 



