Let us turn at once to the actual results of our experiments. It will perhaps be best to ask specific questions about them and in the case of each question present the data and draw such conclusions as the figures warrant. In the figures which follow I have averaged together the results from the two investigations, so that our conclusions or suggestions may have the highest possible validity. In some other connection it would be interesting to compare the two sets of data, and to attempt to explain certain differences which are to be found between them. But in the present instance it is our chief concern to exhibit the method of procedure and to indicate the type of information which may be secured from such investigations. Many more such studies must be made before the results can be said to apply to human nature at large, or before the tendencies discovered can legitimately be expected to be present in the case of any particular individual. _I. How do the self-estimates of these fifty persons agree with the judgments passed on them by their acquaintances?_ The following table gives, in the case of each of the nine traits studied, the average deviation of the self-estimates of the various individuals from the median position assigned them by their twenty-four associates, and also the average deviation[9] among these twenty-four associates in their judgments of each individual. The figure given is in terms of the number of positions in the total scale of twenty-five possible positions. Thus, in the case of neatness, the figures mean that, whereas each individual, in the long run, displaces herself by 5.8 positions from her true or median position, the twenty-four associates deviate on the average by only 4.5 places in their judgments of another person. That is to say, the individual's error in judging herself is somewhat greater than the average error of her friends in their judgments of her. The individual does not judge herself as accurately as she is judged by her friends. TABLE 2 ERROR OF SELF-ESTIMATES COMPARED WITH ERROR OF JUDGMENTS OF 24 ASSOCIATES -------------------------------------------------- | A. D. of Assoc.| A. E. of Self-Est. -------------+----------------+------------------- Neatness | 4.5 | 5.8 Intelligence | 3.7 | 6.0 Humor | 4.5 | 7.3 Conceit | 4.1 | 5.7 Beauty | 3.8 | 6.0 Vulgarity | 3.5 | 6.1 Snobbishness | 4.8 | 5.1 Refinement | 5.9 | 7.2 Sociability | 4.7 | 5.4 --------------------------------------------------