_VI. Does the ability to judge the traits of others (judicial capacity) stand in any relation to proficiency in mental tests or to success in college work?_ The following table shows the correlation of judicial capacity in the case of each trait with standing in the tests and with academic records.
In the case of academic records there is seen to be absolutely no correlation with judicial capacity, in any of the traits estimated. In the case of the mental tests, only two of the traits yield high coefficients. In intelligence and in humor there is fairly high correlation (.55 and .48). The suggestion here is that those who do well in the mental tests are good judges of the intelligence and the humor of their friends, but that in the case of the other traits there is no necessary or probable relation.
_Question VII. Is the individual who is a good judge of others also one whose self-estimates have high reliability?_ If the individuals are placed in an order of merit with respect to their judicial capacity in estimating the characteristics of their friends, and placed also in another order of merit on the basis of the accuracy of their self-estimates, what relation will be found between the two arrangements? The following table gives the coefficients of correlation when such arrangements are compared in the case of each of the traits.
SHOWING THE RELATION BETWEEN ABILITY TO JUDGE OTHERS AND ABILITY TO JUDGE ONESELF
------------------------------------------ |Correlation between Judicial Trait |Capacity and Accuracy of the |Individual's Self-Estimates -------------+---------------------------- Refinement | .54 Humor | .53 Beauty | .47 Sociability | .46 Intelligence | .44 Conceit | .26 Neatness | .22 Vulgarity | .22 Snobbishness | .15 ------------------------------------------
All the coefficients are positive, their median value being .44. In the long run it is true that she who knows herself best is the best judge of others. The degree to which this is true, however, varies with the trait in question. With the "undesirable" traits of snobbishness, conceit and vulgarity, the coefficients are so low as to be quite unreliable and perhaps represent only chance. The same is true of neatness. But in the cases of refinement, humor, beauty, sociability and intelligence the coefficients are fairly high.