. Thinking, feeling, doing . ifference between theweight picked out for the larger one, e. g., 20 grams,and that for the smaller one, e. g., 70 grams, wouldgive the effect of the difference in size between the twoblocks. The difference in weight in this example wouldbe 50 grams, which would be the result of the differenceof six centimeters in the diameter of the blocks. The effect of the suggestion depends upon the age. Dependence onThe results for the New Haven school children are indi- age* 268 Thinking, Feeling, Doing. Dependenceon sex. Extreme cases. cated in Fig. 199. The figures at the b
. Thinking, feeling, doing . ifference between theweight picked out for the larger one, e. g., 20 grams,and that for the smaller one, e. g., 70 grams, wouldgive the effect of the difference in size between the twoblocks. The difference in weight in this example wouldbe 50 grams, which would be the result of the differenceof six centimeters in the diameter of the blocks. The effect of the suggestion depends upon the age. Dependence onThe results for the New Haven school children are indi- age* 268 Thinking, Feeling, Doing. Dependenceon sex. Extreme cases. cated in Fig. 199. The figures at the bottom indicatethe ages ; those at the left the number of grams in theeffect of suggestion. About 100 children of each age from 6 to 17 weretaken. The average effect of the suggestion was as fol-lows : 6 years, 42 grams ; 7 years, 45 grams ; 8 years,48 grams ; 9 years, 50 grams ; 10 years, 44 grams ; 11and 12 years, 40 grams ; 13 years, 38 grams ; 14 to 16years, 35 grams ; 17 years, 27 grams. For all ages the St, % J 7 7 7i T/ 73 73 7? 73= 7g 7> Fig. 199. Dependence of the Effect of Suggestion on Age and Sex. average was above twenty-five grams. The suggesti-bility slowly increases from six years to nine years ; afternine years it steadily decreases as the children growolder. The results, when separately calculated for boysand girls, show that at all ages the girls were more sus-ceptible to suggestion than the boys, with the exceptionof the age nine, where both were extremely are the average results for large numbers ofchildren. Many young people, however, were so sus-ceptible that the set of middle-sized blocks did not rangefar enough to suit them. At the age of seven years 37 percent of the children declared that the large block waslighter than the lightest block, and that the small block Suggestion and Expectation. 269 was heavier than the heaviest. The actual difference be-tween them was 65 grams ; thus the effect of suggestionwas more than
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