More Light for Competition

Abstract

Each group of students shovvs a bias toward the occupations for which the school in which they are enrolled trains. Thus engineering is ranked fifth by engineers but seventh and eighth by other schools; farming is ranked fifth by agricultural students, but seventh and ninth by other groups. The manufacturer is ranked fifth by textile students, but fifth and sLxth, and eighth by the other groups. The business and science students rank the banker second, whereas the other groups place him fourth. The fact, however, that each of these groups place three professions namely, clergyman, physician and professor ahead of their own vocations, indicated the prevalence of the traditional attitude favoring the so-called professions, with the exception of law, which is ranked nine, nine, nine, six respectively or seventh by the whole group. The bias in favor of their own types of work causes lawv to experience this drop. Students in the School of Science and Business deviate slightly from the other groups in their rating of some of the occupations. They show the lowest correlation of any school, o.9805 of the occupations. They rate the clergyman, school teacher, machinist, carpenter and the factory operative lower than the other schools. They rate the banker, manufacturer, merchant, machinist, salesman, baseball player, and man of leisure higher than the other groups.