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3. All who respond could do two at least. I found all the mentally 

 deficients, seven to ten, could do digits, but not always possible to 

 understand what they said. 



4. See previous notes. I have never seen a three or four who said 

 ' A man and a dog ' ; ' Man-dog, ' or even ' Man and dog, ' I could more 

 easily credit. In saying this I confine myself strictly to the Elemen- 

 tary schools grade of child. Some four-year-olds in good families can 

 and do read the newspaper. (An imbecile might say cat or dog, but 

 would add no descriptive word unless he had had some more definite 

 training than they have usually had when up for report.) 



5. I think a three-year-old would give Tommy or Nelly, not the 

 family name. I have tried, but kept no exact records. Five per cent, 

 of the younger mentally deficients, seven to ten, did not know their 

 names. 



Four-year-olds. 



6. Agree; three per cent, of mentally deficients did not know, and as 

 many said Yes to both ' Are you a little girl ? ' and ' Are you a little 

 boy?' 



7. Agree in the main, but many fours would call any coin ' penny ' 

 or ' farden ' ; all mental deficients who answered recognised and 

 named the objects, though several confused the halfpenny with other 

 coins. 



8. Agree; all the mentally deficients passed. 



9. Agree; all the mentally deficients passed. 



. Fivc.-y car-olds. 



10. Not tried. 



11. No certainty as to age level. Tried in mentally deficients with 

 a pencil; the upper classes made successful efforts; about half the 

 lower-class children failed. A simple test of manual powers. 



13. Fifteen per cent, of the mentally deficients failed to count to 

 five. I have no record of the counting to four correctly but failing at 

 five, but can recall two instances. 



Six-year-olds. 



14. There are a good many failures at six and over in this. In 

 regard to the feet or turning round any drill mistress could confirm 

 this. The mentally deficients are far behind the normal, but I have 

 no figures. 



15. Mentally deficients, or the majority, cannot do it with easier 

 sentences. 



17. See previous note on ' What is a cat? ' A useful test in good 

 hands. 



18. Done earlier than Binet suggests with normal children. Of 

 the mentally deficients almost all failed to carry out more than two of 

 the orders. 



19. More than half the younger mentally deficients knew their 

 age. 



20. Three-quarters of the younger mentally deficients knew 

 whether it was morning or afternoon. 



