67] 



ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION OF DATA 



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TABLE XV 

 EDUCATION RECEIVED BY AMERICAN LITERATI, CLASSIFIED ACCORDING TO 



FIELD OF CHIEF ACTIVITY 



Abbreviations: G. S. P., partial grammar school course, or less; G. S., full 

 grammar school course; H. S. P., partial high school course; H. S., full high 

 school course; A. B. P., partial college course; A. B., full college course. The 

 symbol means either the formal education stated, or its equivalent. 



Table XV shows the education received by American 

 literati, classified by field of chief activity. 1 From this table 

 it appears that, with the exception of the two classes, actors 

 and dramatists, there were more literati in each group who 

 received a full college course than there were literati who 

 received any other amount of education. 2 It is obvious that 



1 In the following tables on education the equivalent of a given 

 amount of formal training, when received during childhood and youth, 

 is counted the same as that formal training. 



2 It is true that the facts were not available in the case of every 

 author. The figures for the lower education groups would therefore 

 probably be somewhat increased if the education received by all the 

 literati studied were known. Presumably the majority of those authors 

 whose education could not be learned received relatively little formal 

 instruction, for education received by an individual is more likely to 

 be recorded when ample than when scanty. The possible error can not 

 be serious, however. 



