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down by Fechner and Wundt may yield us 

 much valuable knowledge in regard to sex- 

 differences in the senses and in mental content 

 at the level of consciousness, but for the 

 deeper psychological differences there must 

 be added other methods of analysis. There 

 is, perhaps, something to be hoped for along 

 the lines of the " Enquete " or " Question- 

 naire " method so much used in America. 

 This consists in sending out carefully framed 

 series of questions, and collecting and com- 

 paring the answers, thus drawing upon the 

 experience of teachers in schools and colleges, 

 physicians and others with sufficient training 

 and opportunity to give value to their observa- 

 tions. To this material must be added what 

 can be gathered from biographical writings, 

 from tradition and general observation as 

 crystallised in proverbs and legends. 



It is, as Bucura points out, especially 

 in the domain of female psychology, that 

 exact knowledge is lacking. Trained psy- 

 chologists have hitherto been for the most 

 part men, and they have dealt with general 

 characters or with those of the male. And 

 where the psychology of woman has been 

 treated of, two or three possible sources of 

 fallacy have to be taken into account. The 

 male investigator may be reading his own 

 psychological processes into his subject, so 

 that his conclusions " are more likely to 

 throw light on his own psychology than on 

 that of his subject " ; he will tend to know 

 well women who are more or less alike, that 

 is, of the type which he personally prefers; 



