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average (median) man. 56% of the girls worry about more things than the 
median man. 69%of the girls consider more things wrong than the median 
man. The girls are distinctly more original than the boys in selecting the 
most unpleasant thing (64% above the median man), but they are dis- 
tinctly less individual in selecting things to worry about (86% above the 
median man). They are more original in their choice of the worst thing 
(69% 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 hypochondriaeal. 
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 something of the same way as scales for meas- 
uring intelligence are used to distinguish the feeble-minded? As was said 
before, data from pathological 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 most distinctive results (in choice of the word 
to be circled) were found, and results on these sixteen words alone were 
used. And it was found that in thirty percent of the cases an absolute dis- 
tinction could be made! 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. 
