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TABLE 5. 
Arches 
Small Loops 
Large Loops 
Whorls 
Composites 
No. % 
200 10-00 
174 8-70 
77 3-85 
176 8-80 
107 5-35 
Ry 
R2 
R3 
Ri 
R, 
No. % 
46 2-30 
352 17-60 
212 10-60 
63 3-15 
31 1-55 
No. % 
290 14-50 
654 32-70 
921 46-05 
489 24-45 
870 43-50 
No. % 
815 40-75 
339 16-95 
516 25-80 
543 27-15 
764 38-20 
No. °/„ 
649 32-45 
481 24-05 
274 13-70 
729 36-45 
228 11-40 
Totals 
704 
3224 
2977 
2361 
734 
Z, 
L, 
L, 
91 4-55 
313 15-65 
215 10-75 
66 3-30 
35 1-75 
547 27-35 
833 41 -65 
887 44-35 
583 29-15 
959 47-95 
767 38-35 
282 14-10 
556 27-80 
712 35-60 
768 38-40 
341 17-05 
437 21-85 
240 12-00 
491 24-55 
150 7-50 
254 12-70 
135 6-75 
102 5-10 
148 7-40 
88 4-40 
Totals 
720 
3809 
3085 
1659 
727 
Totals for both hands 
1424 
7033 
6062 
4020 
1461 
hands; the readings for other combinations of digits on opposite hands are given 
in Table 6 d, p. 431, where all the patterns are grouped in three classes for the 
sake of comparison with Galton's results. 
Remarks on Table 6 a. («) The percentages vary greatly with different 
combinations and with different patterns. 
{h) The means and totals for digits of the same name on opposite hands are 
all much greater than the corresponding readings for the right or for the left 
hand ; the means, with one exception, and also the totals for particular combina- 
tions on the left hand are all greater than the corresponding readings for the 
right. 
(c) The order of magnitude of the totals is nearly the same for the two hands, 
those of the combinations including the thumb being, with one exception in each 
hand, the lowest. Hence, judging the relationship by the totals, it appears that 
(1) digits of the same name on opposite hands are the most closely related, the 
magnitude falling in order from the little fingers to the thumbs ; (2) omitting 
the thumbs, two consecutive digits are generally more closely related than others 
more widely separated ; (8) the digits of the left hand are more closely related 
than those of the right. 
(d) The relationship between the thumb and any other digit seems to be less 
close than that between any pair of digits not including the thumb ; also, in both 
