468 
Miscellanea 
TABLE II. 
Gontingencij between Uccnpations of Fathers and Sons ( from Dictionary 
of National Biography). 
Occupation of Son. 
11 
o 
O 
Army 
Art 
3her, C: 
il Serv 
Crafts 
Divinit 
jriculti 
downer 
Law 
literatir 
ommer 
iledicin 
Navy 
cs and 
9 
£ .33 
cS 'o 
Totals 
^3 
< 
Lan 
h-i 
o 
Politi 
Schc 
Army 
49 
8 
5 
2 
6 
5 
4 
3 
9 
4 
95 
Art 
2 
105 
1 
1 
3 
2 
4 
1 
1 
2 
122 
Teacher, Olerk, j 
Civil Servant i 
8 
12 
15 
1 
15 
1 
3 
10 
8 
2 
4 
2 
4 
12 
97 
Crafts 
1 
21 
1 
14 
7 
2 
14 
5 
3 
18 
86 
Divinity 
13 
5 
6 
121 
1 
17 
21 
5 
20 
8 
7 
26 
250 
Agriculture ... 
2 
4 
4 
4 
6 
2 
1 
17 
3 
2 
1 
15 
66 
Laudownershij) 
3 
14 
8 
8 
22 
9 
1 
10 
12 
37 
15 
169 
Law ... 
6 
8 
10 
10 
2 
53 
23 
4 
6 
3 
9 
13 
147 
Literature 
1 
1 
1 
5 
4 
11 
1 
2 
1 
2 
4 
33 
Commerce 
16 
31 
9 
2 
35 
16 
31 
39 
9 
3 
12 
38 
241 
Medicine 
2 
5 
1 
1 
5 
29 
6 
13 
74 
Navy 
1 
3 
2 
1 
2 
2 
3 
1 
2 
13 
3 
2 
35 
Politics & Court 
13 
3 
4 
2 
9 
3 
2 
3 
34 
1 
74 
Scholarship ) 
9 
3 
1 
8 
1 
7 
3 
3 
2 
1 
1 
20 
61 
and Science \ 
Totals 
146 
203 
73 
24 
239 12 
152 
64 
98 
52 
126 
183 
1550 
It will be seen at once how the temporary official class which largely fills Who's Who, crowding 
Army, Navy and Civil Service columns, finds a much smaller place irr the record of national 
importance. On the other hand Literature represented by 155 fathers and 33 sons in Whoh 
Who contributes 157 fathers and 33 sons to a random sample of the same number from the 
Dictionary. The relative distinction of Literature is thus the same in the present and the past. 
Other single entries will be found on comparison of some suggestiveness, but I do not stay over 
them here. 
Using Professor Pearsoir's rrotation I find : 
For Who's Who (1550 cases) : 
Mean Square Contingency, <^-= r285,868, 
Coefficient of Contingency, Cj = -7500. 
For Dictionary of National Biography (1550 cases) ; 
Mean Square Corrtingeucy, (^'•^= 1-413,601, 
Coefficient of Contingency, = "7653. 
Professor Pearson for my first Table of 775 entries from the Dictionary gives* 
Mean Square Contirrgency, ^2 = 1-299,206, 
Coefficient of Contingency, Cj = -6275. 
* Loc. cit. p. 34. 
