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cards), then it should be possible to ascertain the degree of cor- 

 relation between their feeling qualities on the one hand and each 

 of these characteristics of skill on the other. Or that the poorer 

 learned movements are less accurate (most errors), more hesi- 

 tating (most hold-ups) and less controlled (most dropped cards), 

 then it should be possible to ascertain the degree of correlation 

 between the feeling qualities of such movements and each of 

 these defective characteristics of skill. 



The statistical facts forming the basis of the correlation were 

 taken from a larger table (not given here), of which table 3 is a 

 summary. It should be recalled that the movements on which 

 the reports of the feeling qualities were given were made before 

 the case in mimetic fashion, card in hand, without distributing 

 the pack, giving the judgment as each movement was executed. 

 Each of the 52 movements being judged for its feeling qualities 

 47 times in relation to the system of movements in which it 

 occurred, and 50 times as an individual movement, was grouped 

 according to its direction. The percentage of any judgment 

 quality was calculated on the total number of reports for that 

 particular group of directions. For example, in the group of ob- 

 lique movements, right up, of which there were five, the totals are : 

 Pleasant (+) 168, unpleasant (-) 11, neutral (0) 43, and (t) 

 13, making a grand total of 235 feeling- judgments of movements 

 integrated into a " series," or 71.5, 4.7, 18.3, and 5.5 per cent 

 respectively. The subjects repeated these judgments for each 

 of the 52 movements from 7 to 9 different times. In the case 

 of the " memory report" of feeling, (see p. 267) the judgments 

 of each subject were taken at two different times only. 



The mutation of the feeling qualities of the movements with 

 the increase of skill is submitted as a check on the reliability of 

 the reports on such qualities. For this purpose the reports 

 were arranged in a time series according to weeks and to subjects. 

 A study of this table showed: First, that very few tense (t) 

 feeling qualities were reported on the " isolated" movements, 

 this quality being confined almost entirely to the movement in 

 its practiced setting, and that the tense qualities grow less with 

 the acquisition of skill. Second, contrary to expectation, that 



