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Important Less Important 



(b) Business ability (p) Physical capacity 



(i) Native intelligence (c) Mechanical ability 



(n) Technical information (e) Education 



(k) Skills 



The conclusion from these data seems very clear : The good 

 farm manager is possessed of good business ability and a high 

 native intelligence supported with a fund of technical informa- 

 tion and considerable skill. On the other hand physical capac- 

 ity, mechanical ability and general education take positions of 

 less importance in the analytic break-up thus attempted. Let us 

 select certain further partial correlations of interest from Table 

 V and arrange them in order of size of the coefficients : 



r(fm) :cp=.785 r(fm) :in=.586 



r(fm) :kp= .728 r(fm) :eb .580 



r(fm) :kc=.713 r(ftn) :ik=.564 



r(fm) :en=:.679 r(fm) :ien=.554 



r(fm) :ie= .656 r(fm) :nb=.522 



r(fm) :ic= .636 r(fm) :ib=.508 

 r(fm) :i 



In this list the elimination from the financial success-man- 

 agement relation of mechanical ability and physical capacity re- 

 duces the value very little r(fm) equals .848; r(fm) :c equals 

 .795 ; r(fm) :p equals .824, and r(fm) :cp equals .785. It is clear, 

 also, that mechanical ability is a stronger factor than physical 

 capacity in affecting what deduction is obtained. Considering 

 likewise the next highest partial correlation a similar result is 

 found r(fm) 848; r(fm) :k equals.714; r(fm) :p=.824; 

 r(fm) :kp=.728. Skill, like mechanical ability, enters more 

 largely than physical capacity into the financial-management re- 

 lation. Approaching these from the other end of the list we have 

 r(fm) :ib=.508. Evidently intelligence and business ability en- 

 ter the relationship in question very decidedly. The partials 

 r(fm) :b=.572 and r(fm) :i=.649 indicate that business ability is 

 the stronger of the two. This probably means that business 



