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APPENDIX V

ANALYSIS OF TABLE ON FAMILY STRUCTURE

There were among the sixty-eight girls:

7 only children
15 youngest children
5 oldest children
5 with half brother or sister in the same household
5 whose mother was dead
14 whose father was dead
3 who were children of mother's second marriage
2 children of father's second marriage
7 whose mother had remarried
5 whose father had remarried
4 residence with both parents patrilocal
8 residence with both parents matrilocal
9 residence with mother only
1 residence with father only
7 parents divorced
12
residence with paternal relatives (without either parent)
6
residence with maternal relatives (without either parent)
15,
or 30%, whose fathers were heads of households
12
who belonged to a qualified biological family (i.e., a family which during my stay on the island comprised only two relatives beside the parents and children).

INTELLIGENCE TESTS USED

It was impossible to standardise any intelligence tests and consequently my results are quantitatively valueless. But as I had had some experience in the diagnostic use of tests, I found them useful in forming a preliminary estimate of the

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