The resulting answers have been classified by grades, city and parent-
age groups with a view to determining if possible just where the
greatest likes and dislikes for certain studies are located, and also to
compare the likes and dislikes for various studies in each of the
grades in each one of the city and village groups. Charts ISTo. 12,
12-A, 12-B, 12-C, 12-D, etc., which are derived from ta:bles No. 12 to
12-Z, inclusive, in the appendix, show the studies liked best and least
by boys leaving school on the completion of each of the various
gi-ades in the city, village and farm boy groups. It has been assumed
that in the majority of cases the boys named the subjects most liked
and disliked in the last grades completed. The like or dislike for
a given subject may in some cases of course have been increased by
a further study of the same sxibject for a short period of time in the
grade following the last one completed by the boy. For purposes
of comparison, however, the data here given are reliable as the same
percentage of error would prevail in all sections of the State. It is
also important to note that uniform courses of study are used in
all the schools of the State.
The boys who expressed a like and dislike for certain subjects in
the fifth grade are those who left school on or shortly after the com-
pletion of this grade and the likes and dislikes expressed by the
sixth grade group are in no way influenced by the fifth grade group.
