Review of Biotypologie et aptitudes scholaires

Abstract

Reviews the book, Biotypologie et aptitudes scholaires by H. Laugier, Éd Toulouse and D. Weinberg (1935). Occasionally a psychologist dreams of a comprehensive cooperative research program in which a large sample of subjects are made available and are measured by a wide variety of tests and biological procedures and the intercorrelations then analyzed. The present work reports a modest attempt of the above sort although the data are too meagre to answer any of the larger problems. Nor do the authors mention that most important goal of such a project--the location of unique variables. There is nothing very original about the work except the more comprehensive range of measures applied. The authors apparently were concerned with predicting scholarship and did not see the broader implications regarding factor theory. It is to be hoped that the work will stimulate others to carry out a somewhat similar program and make a more complete analysis of the data. It might even be worth while for some one to take the raw data which is given completely and work out a factor analysis or investigate the uniqueness of the variables. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)