SHOWING THE RELATION BETWEEN POSSESSION OF A TRAIT AND ABILITY TO JUDGE SELF AND OTHERS IN THAT TRAIT (All coefficients are positive unless otherwise indicated)
------------------------------------------------------------- |Judgment|Judgment|| |Judgment|Judgment Trait | of | of || Trait | of | of | Others | Self || | Others | Self ------------+--------+--------++------------+--------+-------- Neatness | .22 | .45 ||Vulgarity | -.24 | -.37 Intelligence| .49 | .59 ||Snobbishness| .33 | -.27 Humor | .59 | .87 ||Conceit | .19 | -.22 Beauty | .23 | .15 || | | Refinement | .38 | .83 || | | Sociability | .48 | .47 || | | --------------------------------------------------------------
In the cases of the definitely "undesirable" traits, vulgarity, snobbishness and conceit, the coefficients tend to be negative, and although none of them is very high, they suggest that the possession of these traits to a given degree tends to disqualify the individual to that degree as a judge of those traits, whether in herself or in others. These results also confirm the results in the case of certain of the "desirable" traits, since vulgarity and snobbishness, with low or negative coefficients, are, grammatically at least, the opposites of refinement and sociability, which have high and positive coefficients.
In general, then, our results suggest that, in the case of "desirable" traits, ability to judge a quality accompanies possession of that quality, whereas in the case of the "undesirable" traits the reverse of this is the case.
_IV. What relation exists between these estimated traits and the more objective measurements of the individuals concerned?_ On the basis of the mental tests we have secured measures which may be compared with these estimated traits. The same comparison may be made in the case of the academic records received by the individuals in their college courses. The following table shows the correlation of all the estimated traits with these two objective measurements.
SHOWING THE RELATION BETWEEN ESTIMATED TRAITS AND (A) THE RESULTS OF MENTAL TESTS; (B) THE ACADEMIC RECORDS OF EACH INDIVIDUAL IN COLLEGE SUBJECTS
(All coefficients are positive unless otherwise indicated)
------------------------------------------------ |Correlation| Correlation | Trait |with Mental|with Academic| Average | Tests | Record | ------------+-----------+-------------+--------- Intelligence| .62 | .52 | .57 Humor | .55 | .15 | .35 Refinement | .34 | .34 | .34 Snobbishness| .53 | .13 | .33 Neatness | .36 | .24 | .30 Conceit | .54 | .03 | .28 Beauty | .40 | .06 | .23 Sociability | .25 | -.07 | .09 Vulgarity | .29 | -.31 | -.01 ------------------------------------------------