The psychology of the Negro; an experimental study

by George Oscar Ferguson

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 ... figures show that the white high school pupils obtained on the whole nearly twice the score that was reached by the elementary pupils of the same age; and that the colored high school pupils obtained on the whole more than twice the score that was received by the equally old elementary pupils. Thus is borne out the contention that the older pupils in the upper grades of the elementary school are the poorest of their age; the brightest of their age have passed beyond the elementary school. And it is reasonable to suppose that the same state of affairs exists in the upper high school grades. The able 18 year old students have gone out of the school and left behind their less able fellows. And these are inferior to pupils of normal high school ability at a lower age. It follows as a corollary of the above, that the youngest pupils represented in the graphs have scores which are too high to be truly representative of their ages. The lowest ages in any limited number of grades contain only the brightest pupils of those ages; the mediocre and the dull have not yet reached the grades in question. While the highest ages score too low, the lowest ages score too high. So it appeared that the youngest and the oldest pupils in the elementary grades tested in Richmond stood close together in their scores, and this was probably on account of the undue superiority of the young as much as on account of the undue inferiority of the old. The same is true of the high school taken alone. Ages 14 to 18, inclusive, were represented in the Richmond high schools in sufficient numbers for comparison. The scores received by the different ages of both white and colored pupils behaved in the same way; the scores of the white high school pupils Mixed Relations Test I--Boys, 23...

46 pages, Paperback

First published May 12, 1970