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Further Interpretations. 



In order to be sure that the reader understands the source 

 of the data for Table V it will be well to review the succes- 

 sive steps that have led up to it. Form 



The successive A, Page 10 gives the ratings on two of 

 steps leading up to the eleven characteristics that were de- 

 Table V need to be fined on pages 8 & 9. This is for one 

 clearly understood. group only of thirteen farmers as reported 

 by a Kansas Senior. It is thus simplified 



to show the method of obtaining the summation G's by finding 

 the delta differences between the positions of the men in their 

 own group. The SG obtained gives the datum for use in the 

 Spearman "Foot Rule" formula described on page 11. The one 

 other unknown quantity needed being n 19 or the number of men 

 rated which in this study remains constant at thirteen. Form B 

 given on page 15 is the blank on which the data for all of the 

 groups were obtained. One hundred fifty-eight of these consti- 

 tute the original data of this part of the study. 



Table I, page 16, shows how the successive SG's, using 

 financial success as a criterion, were tabulated. Similar tables 

 were obtained using each of the characteristics or criteria result- 

 ing in over forty delta difference columns for each of the one 

 hundred fifty-eight Form B's. Table II page 17 shows the 

 tabulation of the successive SG's, the "Foot Rule" coefficients 

 and the resulting Pearson coefficients for the relationships using 

 financial success as a criterion. 20 Table III is the first composite 

 table and contains the completed and finally accepted, total cor- 

 relations. The characteristics listed across the top are to be con- 

 sidered in relation to or in correlation with the successive cri- 



19. Not to be confused with the "n" used to denote "informa- 

 tion" as a characteristic. 



20. The computation of each of these coefficients is un- 

 necessary (see page 17) so that these tables will not appear 

 as a matter of record. 



