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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    The tests always began with the weakest solutions, and worked up to the place where the discrimination from distilled water could be made. This procedure is par- ticularly necessary in taste and smell, because the nerves become fatigued so rapidly that it would be impossible for most subjects to detect the weaker solutions when the «2 oo #y stronger ones had just been Fic. 28. : . Taste oT tor eweet, perceived. After reaching the Abscissas— percentage ofthe point at which the subject was soon. sure he could detect some- Ordinates—number of sub- jects. thing in the solution (T,), the ie RSs ae same process was continued until he was able to identify the taste (T,). The curves for the threshold of presence (Figs. 24— 27) show a lower threshold for the women in all four tastes: < The ~différence;cis most marked in bitter, sec- ond in sour, “third in salt, and least in sweet. As regards the thresh- old of recognition (Figs. 28-31) the women are un- st «ld re] WF ne 2S oe questionably more sensitive Fic. 29. foxsourfand®hittersoInysalt. Ue slam alt ; eek Abscissas — percentage of the thewomen’scurveis slightly eS ition better. It has more entries Ordinates—number of subjects. ---- women; men. in the region of very low thresholds, and no cases which fall beyond the limits of the series. The curve for sweet averages about the same for both sexes. Both the best records and the worst are those of women.