24 BASES FOR CURRICULUM MAKING 



of importance that is sometimes ascribed to them. If these cor- 

 relations hold (and they will be subjected to further tests and 

 analyses), farming takes its place in the social order not only 

 as a skilled type of work but as a profession requiring direct 

 managerial and business ability conditioned by special intelli- 

 gence and training. The kind of training as an educational 

 question will receive its merited attention later in the study. 



If it is objected that financial success is too low a stand- 

 ard or criterion, it will be noted that the inter-correlation 



r(fv)=.587 indicates that financial success 



Financial success is and community value (see definition) 

 a proper criterion. have a decided tendency to go together. 



Further, technical training is undoubtedly 



training for production and financial success is a result and pos- 

 sible measure of production. Production, it may be added, is 

 the usual measure of success in industry. 



Considering community value, not so much as a criterion 

 but as to its conditioning elements, the following correlations 

 are of interest: r(vi)=.709; r(ve)=.654; r(vn)==.700. 



These indicate that a man's value to his neighborhood is 

 rather highly dependent upon or coincident with his native in- 

 telligence, his technical information, and his general education. 

 Incidentally this same man seems to possess rather positive 

 qualities as a business man and as a manager. 



Continuing this method, one might discuss all of the basal 

 and inter-relations, using each quality successively as a criterion, 

 but this would be chiefly a matter of social interest and would 

 not bear so directly upon the educational interpretations toward 

 which the study is progressing. So far we have considered re- 

 lationships between two qualities only. There remains a further 

 step of special value in this type of investigation. 



Partial Correlations. 



Partial correlations offer one of the most interesting and 

 valuable aids in interpreting the data at hand. Their possible 

 use in analyzing out some of the more illusive factors and char- 



