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12 S An American Dilemma
various groups of Negroes may be found in Charles S. Johnson, Growing Uf in the
Black Belt (1941), pp. 334-
335 -
A recent evaluative summary of such research has been made by Robert S. Wood-
worth, Heredity and Environment (1941).
Klineberg, Negro Intelligence and Selective Migration^
H. G. Canady, “The Effect of ‘Rapport’ on the I.Q,: A New Approach to the
Problem of Racial Psychology,” Journal of Negro Education (April, 1936), p. 217.
The present War may provide some data to do some of these dynamic studies. In
the first place, measurements are being made of the psychic traits of a large number of
individuals with diverse backgrounds. In the second place, these individuals are being
subjected to experiences which are drastically different from any they have known
before. To get the fullest use out of the data being brought up by the War, it would
be necessary to test the members of the armed forces after the War is over, and to
compare the later measurements with the earlier ones.
^®Paul Horst and Associates, The Prediction of Personal Adjustment (1941), p. 14.
Another revolutionary development in psychological measurement is the trend
away from the concept of “general intelligence.” Mainly under the leadership of
Thurstone, contemporary psychologists are trying to get at the “factors” in intelligence,
and to arrive at an “intelligence profile” of an individual rather than a general I.Q.
An allied development is that toward “item analysis”—the analysis of responses to
specific questions and tasks in a personality inventory or battery. To go into these devel-
opments is beyond the scope of this book, but when they are applied to measurements
of Negro-white differences, they may become important to our problem.
Chapter 7. Population
^
Under the 1924 law, the President is permitted to reduce the quota. President
Hoover did so on March 26, 1931. See Niles Carpenter, “The New American Immi-
gration Law and the Labor Market,” Quarterly Journal of Economics (August, 1931),
pp. 720-723.
^American population statisticians have long known how inaccurate the birth regis-
tration statistics are, but not until recently have we come across any specific information
regarding the inadequacy of death registration data. Harold F. Dorn cites a study by
Isabella C. Wilson which indicates that about 50 per cent of the deaths of Negroes in
Chicot County, Arkansas, were unreported. (Harold F. Dorn, “The Health of the
Negro,” unpublished manuscript prepared for this study [1940; revised, 1942],
Appendix; Isabella C, Wilson, “Sickness and Medical Care among the Negro Population
in a Delta Area of Arkansas,” University of Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station
Bulletin 372 [1939]). Other discussions of under-registration of deaths are cited by
Dorn and by Lyonel C, Florant, “Critique of the Census of the United States,” unpub-
lished manscript prepared for this study (1939).
^ Despite these inadequacies, as well as the difficulty of having special registrations
for voting, social insurance, unemployment, army draft, consumption goods’ rationing,
observation of aliens and other purposes, America has avoided the far more efficient and
less expeniive system of a continuous registration of population. Such a system would
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