The relative strength of nurture and nature / by Ethel M. Elderton.

  • Ethel M. Elderton
Date:
1909
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    NURTURE AND NATURE I3 not really so satisfactory as one might at first sight suppose, as it appears that comparatively few married women in Glasgow have other than the customary domestic work of their homes. Dr Leslie Mackenzie, in his report on these statistics, divides the schools into four groups according to the districts in which the schools are situated, and we have kept to these groups in working out the correlation coefficients—but have also worked the coefficients for all schools taken together. Group A comprises schools in the poorest districts of the city. . Group В comprises schools in poor districts. Group С comprises schools in districts of a better class. Group D comprises schools in districts of a still higher class, and includes four out of five Higher Grade Schools. What then is the effect of the employment of the mother on the height and weight of her sons in Glasgow and in Edinburgh ì In the Introductory Note to the C.O.S. Report of the Edinburgh children it is stated that the children come from a school in the poorest part of the city, but that this school also has an admixture of the children of the comfortable and respectable working class. Table I gives the correlation coefficients of the effect of the employment of mothers on the weight and height of their sons, and we notice : (i) That the employment of mothers is cor-
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