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Mechanical ability seems to contribute to the relationship but 

 physical capacity adds very little indeed. 



Successively eliminating physical capacity, mechanical 

 ability, information and intelligence from the management-skill 

 relationship gradually decreases the correlation from r(mk) .700 

 to r(mk) :i .458. Again skills, it may be concluded, depend 

 largely upon native intelligence. 



Using skills as a criterion, management ranks highest and 

 education lowest but the spread covers only .286 points. 



Taking skills out of certain relationships affects the 

 finance-mechanical correlation decidedly more than the finance- 

 management correlation. This suggests again the discussion 

 above on pages 25 & 26. 



Field and Chore skills contribute directly and decidedly to 

 success in farming. These skills are very largely dependent upon 

 native intelligence a fact which again suggests a deeper, study 



into the type of intelligence for it may be 



Field and chore found that a specialized intelligence is the 

 skills contribute di- background necessity in farm success. If 

 rectly toward sue- so, the next step would be clear a step 

 cess. involving determinations of the type of 



intelligence in question, followed by tests 

 to ascertain its absence or presence in the individual. 



The relation of education, as incidentally developed in the 

 preceding section, to either success or to the main requisite of 

 success managerial ability was decidedly disconcerting. One 

 might be tempted to conclude from the data studied that any defi- 

 nite amount of general schooling beyond what may be termed as 

 the community average (one-room, rural school type) tends to 

 be a disadvantage. 



Without attempting at this point to make a case either for 

 or against general education, let us study some of the correla- 

 tions without reference to the finance or management criteria. 



The following bear directly upon the educational question : 

 r(ei)=732 r(ei) :n=.356 



r(en)=.801 r(en) :i=.567 



r(in)=.732 r(in) :e=.356 



