Abstracts of Papers Read at the First International Eugenics Congress: University of London, July, 1912International Eugenics Congress (1st : 1912 : London)
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Abstracts of Papers Read at the First International Eugenics Congress: University of London, July, 1912
International Eugenics Congress (1st : 1912 : London)
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Standard Scheme of Descent. (After _Galton_.)
[Sidenote: O 3]
Comparison of Mr. Booth's Classification of All London with the Normal
Classes. (After _Galton_.)
[Sidenote: O 4]
Descent of Qualities in a Population. (After _Galton_.)
[Sidenote: O 5]
Inheritance of Ability, as exemplified in the Darwin, Galton, and
Wedgwood Families. (After _Whetham_ and _Marshall_.)
[Sidenote: P]
Exhibited by the American Breeders' Association--Eugenics Section.
C. B. Davenport, Esq.
[Sidenote: P 1-16]
Charts of Statistics of Defectives.
Charts of Classification of Defectives.
Charts of Principles of Heredity.
Pedigrees collected by field-workers in America.
[Sidenote: Q]
Exhibited by Cyril Burt, Esq.
Description of Diagrams illustrating the use of experimental Tests of
Mental Capacities.
1. "Experimental Tests of General Intelligence."
[Sidenote: Q 1]
A List of twelve tests applied to two schools at Oxford. The first
two columns of figures indicate the "reliability" or self-consistency
of the tests as compared with that of examinations and master's
general impression. The second two columns give the correlations of
the results of the tests with the children's "general intelligence."
It will be seen that several of the tests of higher mental processes
are as reliable as the scholastic tests at present in vogue, and that
they correlate quite as highly with intelligence. Further experiments
show that while examinations and master's estimates measure knowledge
and skill acquired by memory and training, the tests seems to provide
measurements rather of innate capacities; and that children of
superior parentage (_e.g._ the preparatory school boys) are themselves
superior at tests, which show an appreciable positive correlation
with intelligence (_i.e_. all except tests of touch and weight). The
tests thus provide an experimental demonstration of the inheritance of
mental ability and a means of measuring the same. (References:--Burt,
Experimental Tests of General Intelligence, British Journal of
Psychology, Vol. III., Pts. 1 and 2.) Burt, Inheritance of Mental
Characteristics, Eugenics Review, 1912, July.
[Sidenote: Q 2]
2. Sex-differences in mental tests.
A list of experimental tests applied to children of both sexes with
a view to measuring their innate capacities for performing mental
processes of different levels of complexity. The amount of divergence
between the sexes, is indicated by the column in red. It will be seen
that the sex-differences become smaller, the higher the level tested.
There is some evidence to show that these differences are the result
of inheritance and are not the result of difference of tradition or
environment. (References: Burt and Moore, the Mental Differences
between the sexes. Journal of Experimental Pedagogy, 1912, June. Burt,
Inheritance of Mental Characteristics, Eugenics Review, 1912, July.)
[Sidenote: R]
Exhibit by Dr. George Papillault.
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