chance, and the number of cases in each group is so small that the
conclusion that education tends to increase the number of individual
reactions would hardly be justified.

It will be observed also that this comparative study does not show any
considerable differences corresponding to age or sex.

With regard to the type of reaction, it is possible to select groups
of records which present more or less consistently one of the
following special tendencies: (1) the tendency to react by contrasts;
(2) the tendency to react by synonyms or other defining terms; and (3)
the tendency to react by qualifying or specifying terms. How clearly
the selected groups show these tendencies is indicated by Table
II. The majority of records, however, present no such tendency in a
consistent way; nor is there any evidence to show that these
tendencies, when they occur, are to be regarded as manifestations of
permanent mental characteristics, since they might quite possibly be
due to a more or less accidental and transient associational
direction. No further study has as yet been made of these tendencies,
for the reason that they do not appear to possess any pathological
significance.


TABLE II.

Special group values.
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Stimulus Reaction General Contrasting Defining Specifying
word. word. value. group 49 group 73 group 84
| subjects subjects subjects