Children's Intelligence in Relation to Occupation of Father

Abstract

A study of the occupations of fathers of Mooseheart children shows that there has been little significant change in occupation during the seventeen-year period 1917-34. There is a greater number of children whose fathers were unskilled and semiskilled workers in Mooseheart than in the general population of Illinois, and there are fewer of the small business, clerical, and professional group. The largest single group of the fathers is the skilled laborers. Intelligence of the children of this group is superior to that of a group of Boston children with unskilled workers as fathers. There is little significant different between the intelligence of the low occupational group and the entire child population at Mooseheart.