Minor studies from the psychological laboratory of Indiana University: The relation of the general intelligence of school children to the occupation of their fathers

Abstract

Investigates the average differences in general intelligence among children of different kinds of homes and the amount of over-lapping between the different groups. A group scale of intelligence was given to 548 unselected school children, 10-14 yrs of age. Results showed that: (1) children of professional men made the highest number of scores above the median for the total group, while children of laborers made the lowest and (2) the groups overlapped largely, though not completely; both extremes of the distribution contained some members from each occupational group. However, the artisans and laborer groups predominated the lower end of the distributions while the professional and executive groups showed a majority of the high scores. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)