22 BASES FOR CURRICULUM MAKING 



Preliminary Interpretations. 



Ability to make money, financial success in farming, will 

 be taken as the first criterion in discussing possible conclusions 

 from the data given in Table III. Placing in order of size the 

 various correlations with financial success that order is as fol- 

 lows : 12 



r(fm)=.848 / r(fv)=.587 



r(fb)=.801 r(fe)=.514 



r(fi)=732 r(fc)=.472 



r(fn)=700 J r(fp)=.354 



r(fk)=.677 J r(fu)=.192 



In their relationships with financial success, the qualities 

 defined on pages 8 and 9 may evidently be grouped as fol- 

 lows : 



Important Less Important 



Managerial Ability Community Value 13 



Business Ability General Education 



Native Intelligence Mechanical Ability 



Technical Information Physical Capacity 



Field and Chore Skills Unpaid Family Labor 



From these data it is readily seen that such qualities or 

 characteristics as managerial ability, business ability, native in- 

 telligence, skills, etc. rank high and are of evident importance in 

 attaining financial competence. On the other hand, education, 

 mechanical ability, physical capacity and unpaid family labor, 

 although positive in value, are of less importance in productive 

 farming. All of the characteristics listed, except community 

 value (which was introduced to be used as a broader criterion) 



12. Remember that "f" in each case refers to financial suc- 

 cess and that r(fm)=.848 should be read as r(fm) and conceived 

 of as the correlation between financial success and managerial 

 ability. Similarly r(fu)=.192 is read r(fu) and is the value of 

 the correlation between financial success and unpaid family la- 

 bor. 



13. Not to be thought of as a cause ; rather a criterion. 



