The mental traits of sex : an experimental investigation of the normal mind in men and women / by Helen Bradford Thompson.

  • Helen Thompson Woolley
Date:
1903
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Credit: The mental traits of sex : an experimental investigation of the normal mind in men and women / by Helen Bradford Thompson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TABLE XXII. Order of preference assigned by the subjects to eight amuse- ments. w ; D J te o) 4 ¥) fq] HZ % ‘. ef z : é fs fe S| Sie me of foal A < 4 v B DO g qm 6 fq fay < ea fy Za 3) om ae) Ae % ea] tan] Ay (e} rea] ME Dida p < W.| M.| W.| M.| W.| M.| W.| M.| W.} M. | W.| M.|W.|M.| W. | M I 7 4 5 7 8 5 3 ° fo) I I I 4 9 fe) fe) PUN Auiep eae eal 1 ch Ne hae 2 OF A heuti 8 he On 13 3 Cue 8 & 4 Bo | Hh 2 fo) I 2 3 PAN (6) I 3 7 ae ee ss Sel eo sh i eK | eee Sa a a eae Wee oF ez ie ie Re a a ae ice ce I Oe Ss Mea ee 1 3 6 2 3 oO 3 ° 3 6 MEN aes 7 2 2 2 I I 2 7 ONE eon Ons) 24 on le Ona. 7 6 6 Si leeavs| om pO 4 4 8 fe) fe) oO On| 10) 2 fo) 3 2 tO 2 fa) 2 I 15 8 column headed ‘“Order.”’ That number is6. Incase a subject placed two amusements in the same grade of esteem they were tabulated accordingly; and the amusement which the subject placed next after these two was tabulated, not as in the next lowest grade, but as in the next lowest but one. If, e. g., a subject placed reading highest, concerts and the opera next, and social gatherings next, reading would be tabu- lated as his first choice, concerts and the opera as his second, and social gatherings as his fourth. It appears from Table XXII that the men’s tastes were more evenly distributed than the women’s. The women’s columns show more large groups and more zeros than the men’s. The order in which the women as a whole and the men as a whole esteemed the amusements in question is given in Table XXIII. From this table it appears that the amusements fall into two groups, each of which was held in the same relative esteem by both the men and the women, though the order of. the