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RESULTS OF 118,000 MENTAL TESTS.
ENGLISH: FIRST
For some time American psychologists have been attempting to assess and grade the mental capacity, firstly of school children, and secondly of natimus as a whole. Mr. Curl C Brigham, assistant professor of Psychology in Princeton University. Has just completed a qualy sis of memoir pablished by the National Academy of Sciences upon 116,000 mental tests carried ons in the American Army during the war. In thess teats 81,000 antive-born Americans, 12.000 foreign born, and 23,000 negroes, were submitted to examinatics. and Mr. Brigham's re sultagare set out in the following order:
-English.
-cuts. 3-Dutch
1. German.
5. American (white), 6-Danish, 7.Canadian 5.-Swedish. B.-Norwegian,
10. ---Belginn.
t-Irish. 12-Austrian. 13-Turkish.
14. Greek.
13.-Russian. 16.-Italina. 17.-Polish.
as-American feuloured)."
the tests that the average American to-day is of lower intelligenes than the average English, Scottish. Durch and German immigrant, and that, on the average. the Nordic riers have more in- telligence than the Alpine and Mediter- cauean, since all the purer Nordic races come at the top of the list. We our- selves run some risk of intellectual de generation through inter-marriage with Mediterranean and Alpine races, who are constantly immigrating into Eng- land."
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There is sorrow in America" bewilder- Once more ment, and blank despair. they ask, as an obsolete writer of theirs asked when we were all younger Air ig visitas" things what they seem.or about is our divilisation a failure? The answer is in the affirmative. Their civilisation, say their professors is en- Lirely a failure. The American may be decent fellow, but he is not intelligent, No wonder this dreadful news rends the United States, in throes. It is a modest nation, but it did think that it was in the first class for intelligence, and then, as they say some," But the professors say no-not first, nor anything like it, nhil professors in the Brited States have an authority beyond our dreams. They are among the biggest noises. What they
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The tests, it is important to note, were carry out mental tests of the arms. Some designed to measure, native intelligence ribaldry was hearth about this at the Art fro ducational acquirements. time which it would be painful to repeat, Man, were adapted for the completely Certain men of sciener who have not n illiterate and for others with no know reverent faith in the new psychology pat
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it about that the tests proved the officers Professor Brigham forecasts a serious alnost devoid of intelligence, but the other ranks quite bright. But now there deterioration in American intelligenesis authentic information, and hence all We are incorporating the negro into the tears. A professor of payphology at our stock, while all Europe is comparat
Princeton has completed an analysis of tively free from this taint," he says.
the records of 116.000 tests. He has According to all the available evidence, classified the victims according to their American intelligence is declining, and nationality or country of origin, and he will proved to decline at an accelerating finds that the most intelligat people Tilfe as the racial admixture becomes with blushes we write it-are the Eng- more and more
im- extensive It migration were stopped now. the decline of American intelligener would still be inevitable.
RACE OR TRADITIÓN ?. Commenting on the analysis, Mr. W. J. Perry, reader in cultural anthorepo: logy in the University of London, told an Observer representative that to make intelligence tests upon groups of people drawn from various nations was an ex cordingly difficult matter-certainly with any degree of accuracy and assurance
Every European nation is
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SCOTS COME SILONG The Scots only, come second. plaints about this must be addressed to Professor Carl . Brigham. of Prince ton. He did it. After the Seats come the Dutch, their the Germans, and the sad, truth is we have come to the fifth place) the Americans are seen at last, of the lower ranks we will not
list, Professor Brigham does not turn- He per the wind to the shorn lamb.
countrymen that tells his unhappy
Rive
American intelligence is declining, and he eputiaued 1 has been.bfilt will proceed to decline at an accelerating on & tradition. It is, this confusion brate as the racial admixture becomes tween race and nationality which leads to 20 Liuch misapprehensioni. The analysis, says that Americans' are com pared with Englishmen." Scotsmen,' "Germans, and so forth. Later it states that the comparison shows that the Blond Nordic is superior in intelligence to the Alpine and the Mediterrancan.
As a matter of fact, the populatida
more and more extensive." It is no use trying to do anything. for.if immigra tion were stopped now, the decline of American intelligence would still be in evitable." They have put too many elements into the melting pot already.
SOME CONSOLATION."
Yet, with our blushing bongurs thick
6 England and Germany, not to speak apen us, we venture to offer some con.
list of races is a little odd. We have the first eighteen. Among the the name of France does not appear. Only a very new paychologist could believe that the French have less intelligence than the Tark and the negro. Mr. Bernard Shaw would wish us to add that there must be gross errors in a class list which puts the Irish eleventh with the English first.
of America, is extruely mixed:The selation to unintelligent America. The basis of our own population, for example, is Mediterranean. and in the large towns this type is increasing. There are also renders of the Nordic race in this coun- try, as well as mixed Alpine types. Similarly, in Germany there are both Nordic and Alpine types. France, sgain, has all three types. while the American nation consists of a mixture of at the nationalities of Europe, with Nordiet eens probable that the psychologists types predominating.
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FALSE CONCLUSIONS. "To get really satisfactory results, the statistician would have to sort out all these types from the various nationalities and then see what happened. Any other method of comparison would very likely lead to false conclusions. On the facts as they stand, it would seem that the system of education, and the whole social
have got the nationalities mixed, or the tests. And what, after all;" is intellig. ence? It is the sort cf mind that a wychologist thinks intelligent: a mind like his own. Perhaps it is we afd not the Americans, who should be alarmed.
THE VOLSTEAD LAW.
tradition of the various countries invol- MR, BORAIT'S ATTACK ON GREAT
ved, would play a very large part in the matter, so that if Englishmen as a whole come out first, it is not because they be long to a racial typ-they don't-but e- cause they have come under the influence of a definite social tradition.
BRITAIN.
Senator Borah, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, recently sent a telegram to the Committee of One Such would be the case with the Ger. Thousand for Law Enforcement, in which
he said that the United States Govern mans But the Ameircans would tail bement had as much right to demand that cause their social and educational s England should prevent her nationals tems do not produce the best results. it from undermining the Volstead Law as seems that there is a definite differees England had to demand that Movies between the negro and the light-skin Russia should stop her nationals from man, though it would not be easy to trying to undermine the British Govern- define. There are distinct differences in went. He added: temperament it is true, between the various light-skinned races: hut it would be a matter of extreme delicucy to frame any sort of intelligence test that would establish intellectual differences with ab sclate precision.
"It is not. segregation," he conclud- ed, but intercourse with other coun- tries which determines a nation's intel- lectual development."
NOT COMPARAULE HAMPLES.
When Mr. Chamberlain sent his com- munication to the Soviet. Governmeat relative to the Zinovieff letter he stated to that Government, in substance, this correct principle: You either have a Government or you have not. You can either control your nationals in their effort to sow discord and violence among other peoples or you scenot. Are wo pot entitled to say to the British Guvera- inent: "You have Government or you have not You can either control your nationals in their effort to break down pohey and plant murder and misery among other peoples or you cannot " ?
Dr. Ronald Campbeli acfic, the well known writer on evolution, and heredity. while agreeing that the tests, as perform ed, were conclusive enough, said that the Senator Borah added that it was quite nations as a whole must not necessarily within the power of the British Govern- stand on the sin intellectual level as ment instantly to put an end to the the recruits they supplied to the Ameri- activities of what be called " such mors! can Army.
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