Geographical Brains

It is a popular belief that intelligence knows no geography, that a bright child is just as likely to be born on a southern plantation as in a northern tenement. But Army intelligence tests during the War challenged this theory, and last week, after a careful statistical investigation, an educator concluded that the place where a child is born has a great deal to do with the chances of his being intelligent. Dr. Glenn Myers Blair separated 3,000 junior and senior high-school youngsters in Everett, Wash, into mentally superior and inferior groups and then determined where their parents, nine out of ten of whom originally lived outside the State, were born. His findings: parents from the northern States of the U. S. produced more bright children than dull ones; the southern States more dull children than bright; greatest preponderance of bright children was in the far West; biggest proportion of stupid ones in the South Central States (Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama. Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas). Dr. Blair, whose doctor's thesis reporting his investigation was sponsored by Columbia University's Teachers College, offered no explanation.

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