Vocational psychology : its problems and methods / by H.L. Hollingworth.

  • Hollingworth, Harry L. (Harry Levi), 1880-1956.
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[1916], ©1916
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Credit: Vocational psychology : its problems and methods / by H.L. Hollingworth. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    inal nature. If Ellis had thought of this criticism before he wrote his own book, ‘‘Man and Woman,’’ his chapter on ‘‘The Variational Ten- dency of Men’’ would certainly not have been pub- lished. However, his criticism of Pearson’s ma- terial is no less just because he failed to apply it in his own case. It is true that measurements of adults do not tell us what might be the case with infants, who have not yet been subjected to the formative and selective influences of environment and training. Yet Pearson’s article remained practically the only literature of fact regarding the comparative anatomical variability of the sexes until the year 1914. In 1914 Montague and Hollingworth published in the American Journal of Sociology an article setting forth in full the measurements of two thousand new-born infants, one thousand of each sex. The statistical result shows no difference whatever in variability be- tween the sexes. It may seem irrelevant to dwell upon anatomical data, when the purpose of this chapter is to deal with mental aptitudes. The pertinence of the data cited, however, lies in the fact that if any sex dif- ference in physical variability could be estab- lished, this would suggest (though it would not prove) the existence of a sex difference in mental