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Experiments on School Children 1 

 Experiments were also made on 100 school children, 50 boys and 

 50 girls, ranging in age from n years to 15 years. The age distribution 

 was as follows: 7 eleven-year-olds, 29 twelve-year-olds, 32 thirteen- 

 year-olds, 28 fourteen-year-olds and 4 fifteen-year-olds. For the tests 

 fifteen colors from the set used in the above experiments were selected, 

 every third being taken till the fifteen were secured. 

 The results were as follows: 



There is practically no difference in the sexes in the perception of 

 differences in the reds. The girls show a slightly greater variability 



Fig. 2. — Distribution of Errors in Color Tests of School Children. 



1 1 am indebted to Miss Mary M. Hughes of the University Hill School for securing these results. 



