HUMAN MIND

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 144, 8 September 1927, Page 1

HUMAN MIND

STUDY BY SCIENTISTS SOCIAL STATUS EFFECT OF ENVIRONMENT By Ca rte. — Pr6a& Association. — Copyright LONDON, Tuesday. In a paper on “Social Status,” given by tht) Reader in Sociology in the University of London. Dr. Morris Ginstverg, i.t the Science Congress at Leeds, he said: “Small families mean more intelli;ent rhildren.” The upper classes tftßftraily had much larger heads. It ,'as, he said, the general impression has broad heads had more capacity or thought than long heads, but the widen;:© forced the dellnite conclusion hat there was no relation between in•iilisence and the size of the head. Curiously, a larger brain did not correspond with the degree of civilisation. The civilised had smaller jrains than the Chinese barbarians. The children of the piofessional classes vere : roir two to five inches taller )€tWi'€n the ages of six and thirteen iian were the children of the labouring iaases. for which Di*. Ginsberg said ie bls.med the environment of the itter. Europeans were now a much taller ace than in 1827, as a result of proper liygien. l and better social conditions! An investigator had discovered that aJthoufh the labouring class provided *• small percentage ol distinguished l«ople. it produced 35 per cent, of the sculptors a.il painters. Dr. Godfrey Thomson, professor of education a Edinburgh University, said it had been ascertained that the intelligence <»f "5 per cent, of the children o' the Northumberland miners Aceede 1 thr.t of the Stverage of the sons of professional men. r * K. C. Bartlett, director of the Wyehol'igical laboratory, Cambridge | airersitv, said social status was declined by temperament more than by diligence. Many people who went o ’.he Dominions had succeeded by tier, anil resourcefulness, not by learn--1I!f and wisdom.—Sun.