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The only divergencies in this table which are of any, if slight, significance are 
in the group of dark-haired children with blue eyes (4 and 5, with 1), and in the 
group of brown-haired children with dark eyes (3, with 4). In the first case boys 
and girls with this colouring are distinctly above the average in each instance 
when corrected for age and in three instances out of four are more above the 
average than any other group ; the exception is in the weights of boys. In the 
second case the lowest point in three out of four instances, corrected for age, 
is reached by the group of brown-haired dark-eyed children (3, with 4); the one 
exception is in the height of girls, fair-haired children with medium-coloured 
eyes (1 and 2, with 3) being the shortest. 
As far as this material goes, we find that types of hair and eye colour are 
not associated to any substantially significant extent with divergencies in height 
and weight in children between the ages of seven and fourteen inclusive. 
Mr Tocher has pointed out that an examination of two schools in Glasgow, 
Gorbals and Adelphi Terrace, where " about 500 children had distinctly foreign, 
mostly Jewish, surnames," shows that there is a decided excess of dark and jet 
black-haired and of dark-eyed children, and a corresponding defect in the other 
classes, but no such excess occurs in our selected schools, and it seems probable 
that the number of foreigners in these selected schools is small. At the same time 
if hair and eye colour were a satisfactory measure of racial descent, and height and 
weight differ in different races, we should a priori have expected to find significant 
differences in this material. That they do not occur suggests that in blended 
races there exists little correlation between pigmentation and weight or stature. 
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