Citation

Lehman HC, Stoke SM. Am. J. Sociol. 1930; 36(1): 15-27.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1930, University of Chicago Press)

DOI

10.1086/215281

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

The differences between the mean intelligence test scores of the members of the various occupations have been emphasized so frequently that an erroneous belief has gradually developed, namely, that the majority of our bright citizens come from the professional and the large-scale business groups. Inspection of a neglected aspect of the army intelligence test data leads to the conclusion that the majority of A and B caliber men of the United States are to be found in agricultural work and among the skilled and semiskilled laborers. The farmers alone supply as many A and B caliber individuals as do the professional classes collectively. More than half of the A and B caliber men are to be found in the non-white-collar occupations.