more of interest than the quantitative, howbeit its results are not statable in exact terms nor expressible in figures. The qualitative side better, however, suggests the mysteries of association and of the imagination, deep in the nervous substance, which future psychologists may explain. Each subject, it will be remembered, was instructed to report the first object which the blot suggested to him in each of the 120 cases. A comparison of these object-images gives, therefore, curious and interesting results, and leads into mazes of scientific conjecture.
In the case of no blot did over 40 per cent of the subjects agree on any one suggested object. In several instances no two of the subjects were reminded of the same thing. These two extreme blots are reproduced in Figure 1, the right blot,
XII, 7. | X, 10. |
Figure 1. |
numbered X, 10, having given the 40 per cent of agreements, and the other, XII, 7, being one of those upon whose name no two agreed. Critical