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Excerpt from A Study of British Genius
The plan of the present book is simple. The bulk of the volume is taken up with the succinct co-ordination and summation of the data before us, all introduction of foreign matter which might unduly overweight the conclusions at any point being strictly excluded. In small type are inserted the results obtained by previous investigators on somewhat similar bodies of data, together with the results obtained by the study of other mentally abnormal groups these results are often of the highest significance in enabling us to interpret our conclusions. In the Appen dices I have brought together some of the elementary facts on which I have worked; the reader is thus enabled to examine and check my methods for himself; he will also, I hope, be able at many points to correct or amplify the original data.
I had purposed to represent the results of this study graphically by means of curves. On consideration, how ever, it seemed that such a method was unsuited to the nature of the data, and might tend to mislead the reader.
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