The results of the ten-test training as they appear
in Table 43 need no special comment, for quite similar
data have already been examined in other connections.
In the case of this table it is to be remembered that
each figure represents the number of errors for a single
day as well as for a series of ten successive tests.
The results of Table 44, on the other hand, appear
as subdivided series, since each daily series was
constituted by two series of ten tests, or in all twenty
tests.
Finally, in Table 45 I have arranged the results of
what may fairly be called the continuous training
method. In connection with several of the labyrinth
experiments of Chapter XIII continuous training proved
very satisfactory. It therefore seemed worth
while to ascertain whether the same method would not
be more efficient than any other for the establishment
of a white-black discrimination habit. That this
method was not applied to ten individuals as were
the two-five-test, the ten-test, and the twenty-test
methods is due to the fact that it proved practically
inadvisable to continue the tests long enough to complete
the experiment. I have usually designated the
method as one hundred or more tests daily. I
applied this training method first to individuals Nos.
51 and 60. At the end of one hundred and twenty
tests with each of these individuals I was forced
to discontinue the experiment for the day because of
the approach of darkness. In the table the end
of a series for the day is indicated by a heavy line.
The following day Nos. 51 and 60 succeeded in acquiring
a perfect habit after a few more tests.
TABLE 45
EFFICIENCY OF TRAINING. WHITE-BLACK TESTS AT
THE RATE OF 100 OR MORE PER DAY
