ABSTRACT
The English sample was collected in three main areas — North London industrial, Hertfordshire small-town, and Hertfordshire rural. The differences between these subgroups were unexpectedly small and are hardly worth reporting. It would seem that bad slums snd primitive rural conditions are difficult to find in present-day S.E. England (so far as the non-immigrant white population is concerned). The villages are occupied more by car workers in factories 15 miles away than by agricultural labourers, and even in our poorer London schools it was rare to see a raggedly dressed boy, or one who did not get at least half a crown a week in pocket money. The rural group scored a little lower on most tests, but the only difference significant at the 05 level was on Abstraction, where its median quotient was 88.
