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greater than that of the men. It must be recalled in this con- 

 nection, however, that the standard deviation, which many 

 biologists consider the best measure of variability of physical 

 characteristics is about the same in men (3.176), as in women 

 (3.419). But even this tends to contradict the accepted opinion 

 that the male is more apt to show wider limits of variation, and 

 confirms Pearson's theory that when studied by modern mathe- 

 matical methods, available data tend to show that any difference 

 in the degree of variability in the sexes which may be discerned,, 

 women are slightly more variable than men.^ 



In Table XXXII are given the individual variations of the 

 cephalic index of the Jewesses according to their nativity. 

 Owing to the small number of observations in each group, it 

 can not be expected that this should give reliable information 

 as to the variability of the Jewesses in each of the named coun- 

 tries. Arranged in groups of types of headform, we may com- 

 pare them with the Jewish women in Eastern Europe, wherever 

 literature on the subject is available. 



Table XXXIII. 



Cephalic Index in Jewesses in the United States and in Eastern 



Europe. 



Type of 



Poland. 



Lithuania and White- 

 Russia. 



Little-Russia. 



Headform. 



New York. 



Poland. 



New York. 



White- 

 Russia, 



New York. 



Little- 

 Russia. 



-75 

 76-77 

 78-79 

 80-81 

 82-83 

 84-85 

 86+ 



No. observed. 



10.71 

 8.93 

 39.29 

 17.86 

 14.29 

 8.93 



56 



1.6 

 1.6 

 12.8 

 20.0 

 27.2 

 24.0 

 12.8 



120 



2.0 

 8.0 

 6.0 

 25.0 

 32.0 

 13.0 

 14.0 



100 



8.0 

 18.0 

 14.0 

 24.0 

 16.0 

 13.0 



7.0 



100 



1-33 

 5.41 

 13.51 

 36.49 

 22.97 

 12.16 

 8. 1 1 



74 



1.46 

 2.91 

 8.74 

 20.87 

 21.85 

 22.81 

 21.36 



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There is no evidence of greater dolichocephaly in the immi- 

 grant Jewesses as was seen to be the case with the Jews. Thus 

 in Galicia the average cephalic index of the Jewesses was found- 



1 Karl Pearson, "The Chances of Death," chapter on "Variation in Men and 

 Women." 



