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A Study in Criminal Anthropometry 
the prison official's appreciation of the type of labour to which the convict can be 
set. We are justified therefore in considering how far these variates of physique, 
which clearly have intrinsic value far beyond the difficulties inherent in the personal 
equation of the medical examiner, are associated with the physiological variates. 
TABLE E. 
Corrdalion of Physiological and Physical Variaies. 
Temperature 
Pulse 
Respiration 
General Health 
Capacity for Labour 
Muscularity ... 
Nutrition 
+ •108 ±-029 
+ •098 ±-028 
+ ^126±^030 
+ -019±^028 
-■110±-029 
-•010±^028 
-•179±^030 
+ •093 ±-028 
+ •025 + -029 
-•098 ±-028 
-•130±^030 
+ •096 ±-028 
Height 
Weight 
+ -003+ -022 
+ ■043 ±-022 
-•078 ±^022 
+ 114±-022 
-•144±^022 
-•089 ±^022 
Age 
-•150±^022 
+ ^121±^022 
+ •136 ±-030 
Now this table is really very noteworthy for all the correlations are low, even 
when significant. In other words the general physical condition has very little 
relation to the physiological variates. In a person, not ill enough for hospital 
treatment, temperature, pulse, and respiration would hardly be a differential 
measure of general health, much less of the goodness or badness of the physique 
in general. It is true that the person in good health has a rather higher temperature 
and rather lower pulse- rate than one in poor or indifferent health. But there is 
no significant difference in respiration and the correlations are so low that not 
only no rough measures of temperature and pulse would aid diagnosis, but really 
fine numerical determinations would not be of any discriminating value. In 
capacity for hard labour the pulse plays no part, but it is associated with a slightly 
higher temperature and a slightly slower respiration. Muscularity is associated 
with higher temperature, slower pulse and slower respiration. Fatness with 
higher respiration and pulse, but has no apparent relation to temperature. Height 
and weight also have no sensible relation to temperature, the larger men have a 
slower respiration, but the effect of tallness is to slacken pulse, of greater weight to 
quicken it. Pulse and respiration quicken with age, but temperature falls. In 
every case, however, these associations are so small that they would be incapable 
of appreciation except as the mean results of large numbers of accurate records. 
For ordinary every day experience we can only conclude that nothing can be 
judged from the physiological variates of physique or from physique of the 
physiological variates. 
