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IN a previous communication1 concerning the problem of the selection of students for scientific research, the use of F.R.S.'s as a criterion group of research ability was described, and the proportion of degree classes gained within this group was reported. Such results could give no precise idea of the relation between degree class and research ability unless compared with the results gained by the research population from which the F.R.S.'s emerged. The data necessary for such a comparison have now been collected, and are given in Tables 1 and 2. Only one part of the F.R.S. population has been used for the purpose of this comparison, namely, those who graduated from Cambridge during the period 1920–39. In gathering a representative sample of the research population at Cambridge during the same period, each F.R.S. was matched as closely as possible with a research student of the same sex, who read the same subject, who graduated in the same year, and who has not yet become a Fellow of the Royal Society. Apart from these requirements the sampling for the non-F.R.S. group was random. The Tripos results for both groups are set out side by side in Table 1, the figures in brackets representing the totals on which the percentages are based. Table 2 shows the results for both groups in the last Tripos examination taken, classified in terms of the faculty to which each individual belonged.
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HUDSON, L. Undergraduate Academic Record of Fellows of the Royal Society. Nature 182, 1326 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/1821326a0
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