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SEX AND HEREDITY 



TABLE 4. Assertiveness. Correlation = -5. 



TABLE 5. Popularity. Correlation = -5. 



Table 6 gives some examples of the results of Pearson's 

 investigations, and we note the close similarity between 

 the intensity of resemblance (i.e. of inheritance) for 

 physical and mental characteristics, as calculated from 

 these school data. The objection might otherwise have 

 been raised that the figures for the mental characters 

 were of less value than those for the physical, owing to the 

 greater liability of the former to be influenced by (i) 

 errors of judgment, or of bias, on the part of the teachers 

 who filled up the schedules, and (2) the similarity of 



