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averajie (median) man. 5G% of the girls worry about more things than the 

 median man. GU^/cof tlie girls consider more things wrong than the median 

 man. The girls are distinctly more original tlian the boys in selecting the 

 most unpleasant thing (G4% above the median man), but they are dis- 

 tinctly less individual in selecting things to Avorry about (36% above. the 

 median man). They are more original in their choice of the worst thing 

 (G9% above the men's median). 



The results on the individual words are even more striking. The girls 

 find words having any sex reference, or mentioning anything disgusting, 

 much more unpleasant than the men do. The men on the other hand find 

 particularly unpleasant such words as "disgrace, poison, persecute, unfair, 

 failure". So far as worries go. the girls worry much more about religious 

 topics than the men : they tend more to be depressed. The men stand out 

 as worrying about their own health, as being distinctly hjiiochondriacal. 



These are simply interesting bits of fact, however. The important ques- 

 tion is: can such an examination or questionnaire yield information which 

 will enable one to distinguish the psychopathic or the criminalistic from 

 the average individual, in soniething of the same way as scales for meas- 

 uring intelligence are used to distinguish the feeble-minded? As was said 

 before, data from patlu)logical groups are lacking. It was thought inter- 

 esting, however, to determine how definitely the two sexes could be distin- 

 guished by means of the tests. Briefly, it was found that the results in 

 total affectivity and total idiosyncrasy were largely identical for the two 

 sexes ; there was nothing distinctive in these totals. However, the 'four 

 words on each test showing movt distinctive results (in choice of the word 

 to be circled) w^ere found, and results (m these sixteen words alone were 

 used. And it was found that in thirty percent of the cases an absolute dis- 

 tinction could be made I In fact there was only one man who scored above 

 the median for the women. It is at once suggested that similar valuable 

 distinctions, in separating out the pathological and the delinquent, may be 

 possible. At least it seems worth trying. 



