 | Francis Galton - Ability - 1883 - 422 pages
...irritability, I fancied that women of delicate nerves who are distressed by noise, sunshine, etc., would have acute powers of discrimination. But this...number of just perceptible grades of sensation between them is not necessarily different. I found as a rule that men have more delicate powers of discrimination... | |
 | Sir Francis Galton - 1883 - 434 pages
...healthy, but the number of just perceptible grades of sensation between them is not necessarily different. I found as a rule that men have more delicate powers of discrimination than women, and the business experience of life seems to confirm this view. The tuners... | |
 | Havelock Ellis - 1894 - 958 pages
...irritability, I fancied that women of delicate nerves who are distressed by noise, sunshine, etc., would have acute powers of discrimination. But this...number of just perceptible grades of sensation between them is not necessarily different. I found as a rule that men have more delicate powers of discrimination... | |
 | Anna Alexander Rogers - Marriage - 1909 - 234 pages
...Galton, the pioneer in accurate study of the sensory differences between man and woman, remarks: " I found as a rule that men have more delicate powers of discrimination than women, and the business experience of life seems to confirm this." Two of Ellis's... | |
 | Graham Richards - Psychology - 2002 - 392 pages
...Francis Galton, for example, somewhat at odds with prevailing notions of greater female sensitivity: I found as a rule that men have more delicate powers of discrimination than women, and . . . business experience . . . seems to confirm this view. The tuners... | |
 | David G. Horn - Social Science - 2003 - 228 pages
...irritability, I fancied that women of delicate nerves who are distressed by noise, sunshine, etc., would have acute powers of discrimination. But this I found not to be the case."'" Women's inferior powers of sensory discrimination were, for Galton, confirmed by the "business experience... | |
 | David G. Horn - Social Science - 2003 - 228 pages
...irritability, I fancied that women of delicate nerves who are distressed by noise, sunshine, etc., would have acute powers of discrimination. But this I found not to be the case."6' Women's inferior powers of sensory discrimination were, for Galton, confirmed by the "business... | |
 | Karl Pearson - 1924 - 570 pages
...irritability, I fancied that women with delicate nerves who are distressed by noise, sunshine, etc., would have acute powers of discrimination. But this...found, as a rule, that men have more delicate powers of discrimination than women, and the business experience of life seems to confirm this view. The tuners... | |
 | American essays - 1907 - 1108 pages
...sensibility." Gallon, the pioneer in accurate study of the sensory differences between man and woman, remarks, "I found as a rule that men have more delicate powers of discrimination than women, and the business experience of life seems to confirm this." Two of Ellis's... | |
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At first owing to my confusing the quality of which I am speaking with that of nervous irritability, I fancied that women with delicate nerves who are distressed by noise, sunshine, etc., would have acute powers of discrimination. But this I found not... 