HUMAN FACULTY
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Names. |
Marks
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Measures. |
Class
place. |
Divisions of Scale. |
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Quarters. |
Hundredths
(Gentiles). |
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Ist |
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2nd |
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3rd |
- Lower quartile -- |
25" - |
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4th |
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5th |
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6th |
- Middle quartile -- |
50° - |
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7th |
(Median) |
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8th |
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9th
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- Upper quartile -- |
75° - |
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ioth |
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12th |
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100, - |
As it may interest persons to know how they would stand among the visitants to a large London Exhibition, I give a brief extract on next page from my published table (Nature, January 8, 1885), [86], concerning those measured at the International Health Exhibition.
Suppose the reader to be a male adult, and the strength of his pull as with a bow to be 78 lbs., he will learn that his class-place in that particular is at the seventieth centile. In other words, that of
