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teria at the left. 21 They should be read as follows : The corre- 

 lation between financial success and native intelligence equals 

 .732; between financial success and managerial ability equals 

 .848; the correlation between education and intelligence equals 

 .732 ; between education and skills equals .414 ; and so on for all 

 of the relationships listed. Finally Table V gives the resulting 

 partial coefficients as obtainable from the data of Table III. 



Table III alone is of great interest and value and pro- 

 vides a source for important principles of curriculum-making. 

 Table V with its possibilities of further extension, however, pro- 

 vides almost unlimited material for study in this field. The out- 

 standing points only will be discussed. 



Let us approach the study of the data of Table V from the 

 standpoint of the relative importance of 



The data of Table the causal factors of success as described 

 V may be studied on pages 22 & 23. The highest factor 

 from the standpoint r(fm) equals .848, managerial ability is 

 of the apparent rel- evidently the major cause. From the 

 ative importance of table let us select all of the financial 

 the causal factors success-management correlations that 

 of success. have been computed : 



r(fm) :p=.824 r(fm) :n=.675 



r(fm) :c=.795 r(fm) :i=.649 



r(fm) :e=.786 r(fm) :b=.572 



r(fm) :k=.714 



Using the data having only one characteristic eliminated or 

 held constant it is readily seen that business ability enters more 

 largely into the financial success, management relationships than 

 does any other quality while physical capacity affects the rela- 

 tionship least of all. Again native intelligence stands next to 

 business ability in importance while mechanical ability stands 

 next to physical capacity in lack of importance. The factors of 

 importance and more or less non-importance may be listed as 

 follows : 



21. Let it be constantly remembered that each value given 

 in this table is the mid-point value of one hundred fifty differ- 

 ent correlations. It is the central tendency of all of the rela- 

 tionships that were obtained for the particular relationship in 

 question. 



