Inquiries into human faculty and its developmentGalton, Francis
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Inquiries into human faculty and its development
Galton, Francis
Ability; Eugenics
Next, I found that my list of 75 words gone over 4 times, had given
rise to 505 ideas and 13 cases of puzzle, in which nothing
sufficiently definite to note occurred within the brief maximum
period of about 4 seconds, that I allowed myself to any single trial.
Of these 505 only 289 were different The precise proportions in
which the 505 were distributed in quadruplets, triplets, doublets,
or singles, is shown in the uppermost lines of Table I. The same
facts are given under another form in the lower lines of the Table,
which show how the 289 different ideas were distributed in cases of
fourfold, treble, double, or single occurrences.
TABLE I.
RECURRENT ASSOCIATIONS.
================+=================================================+
Total Number of | |
Associations. | Occurring in |
|-------------------------------------------------+
| Quadruplets. | Triplets. | Doublets. | Singles.|
505 | 116 | 108 | 114 | 167 |
----------------+--------------+------------+-----------+---------+
Per cent . 100 | 23 | 21 | 23 | 33 |
================+==============+============+===========+=========+
Total Number of | |
Different | Occurring |
Associations. +-------------------------------------------------+
| Four times. |Three times.| Twice. | Once. |
----------------+--------------+------------+-----------+---------+
289 | 29 | 36 | 57 | 167 |
----------------+--------------+------------+-----------+---------+
Per cent . 100 | 10 | 12 | 20 | 58 |
================+==============+============+===========+=========+
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