114 Correlation of Mental and Physical Characters. [Nov. 3, 



The relationship between keenness for combined with capacity in 

 games and general intelligence is here manifest. 



Certain other correlations with the athletic character may be just 

 noticed without giving the tables. The athletic boy is popular 

 (0-3250) and noisy (0-3452), and this although popularity is not found 

 to be directly correlated with noise. He is slightly self-conscious 

 (0-0761), and is more likely to be fair than dark (0-0391). His temper 

 tends to be quick rather than sullen (0-2207), as the following table, 

 based on 1664 cases, will show : — 



Percentages of Athletic to JYoTi-athletic Boys for each Temper. 





Quick tempered. 



G-ood-natured. 



Sullen. 





21 



68 



11 





12 



74 



14 



To sum up, then : "While the intelligent are only slightly the more 

 healthy, the athletic are notably the more healthy element in the com- 

 munity. Further, the athletic are considerably more intelligent than 

 the non-athletic ; they are the more popular and more noisy element ; 

 and they tend to quick rather than sullen temper. "We may in general 

 terms describe the athletic boy as healthy, quick-tempered, and in- 

 telligent when compared with the non-athletic boy. He certainly 

 under all three headings should make a better soldier than the non- 

 athletic, and it is hard to discover any statistical evidence in school 

 life for such expressions as " the flannelled fool at the wicket," or "the 

 muddy oaf at the goal." What happens in later life can only be 

 determined when ample statistics are available for reduction and com- 

 parison. Failing such data, we can argue only from the vaguest of 

 impressions. 



