It might be understood to be mental power, reputation, social
success, income from societal work, or societal value. Ammon took up the
idea and developed it, making a diagrammatic representation of it, which
is reproduced on the following page.[67]
+48.+ If we measure and classify a number of persons by any physical
characteristic (stature, weight) we find that the results always fall
under a curve of probable error. That they should do so is, in fact, a
truism. If a number of persons with different degrees of power and
resistance are acted on by the same influences, it is most probable that
the greatest number of them will reach the same and a mean degree of
self-realization, and others in proportion to their power and
resistance. The fact has been statistically verified so often, and for
such a great variety of physical traits, that we may infer its truth for
all traits of mind and character for which we have no units, and which
we cannot therefore measure or statistically classify.
X
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* | * Genius
*--|--*
* | * Talent
* | *
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* | *
* | *
* | *
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* | * e } h
* | * d } e
* | * i }
* | * o } M
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* |D * r } s
* |C * i } s
* |B * t } e
* R |A S * y } s
*---------------|---------------*
* |a *
Unskilled and * |b * Illiterate
* |c *
* |d *
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