THE INTELLIGENCE OF THE SCHOOL CHILDREN SUFFERING WITH ‘SINUITIS NASALIS CHRONICA’ WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THEIR ‘APROSEXIA NASALIS’
1965 Volume 13 Issue 3 Pages 161-165,191
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1965 Volume 13 Issue 3 Pages 161-165,191
In this study I have examined the relationshipbetween the intelligence of the children suffering with ‘sinuitis nasalis chronica’ and also having ‘aprosexia nasalis’ in comparison with the sufferers from the same disease but not having ‘aprosexia nasalis’ and also in comparison with the healthy children.
On this problem it has hitherto been reported in the medical studies that their intelligence is generally low.
The result of an investigation of theirs which was made with senior-high pupils to find out whether they had ‘aprosexia nasalis’ shows that the sufferers also having this defect are of low intelligence. From this they imply that the poorness of their intelligence is closely connected rather with aprosexia nasalis than with the disease itself.
To study the problem subjects were selected by examing written records on the school register of the children's medical examination.There were 121 school children (62 boys and 59 girls) of the fourth, fifth and sixth grades, of whom, for more than two years, except for untreated decayed teeth, 23 boys and 21 girls had not been suffering from any other disorder but, sinuitis nasalis chronica,‘ while, on the same condition, 39 boys and 38 girls had been in excellent health.
The sufferers were divided into groups those in one had, aprosexia nasalis’ and those in the other had not.The control group of the healthy children were similarly done as to the like symptom of this trouble.Then, from the two viewpoints of the mean, and the ratio of the respective number of children belonging to each grade of intelligence, I have investigated their I.S.S.s on the whole (including boys and girls) and with the distinction between boys and girls.
The intelligence test used in this 5udy was Tanaka Intelligence Test New B Form II.
The results are summed up as follows:
1 Contrary to the reports in the medical studies, the idea that the intelligence of the sufferers who have, aprosexia nasalis is inferior cannot be observed.
2 It is implied that ‘aprosexia nasalis’ has no bad influence upon the results of the intelligence test.
And still there remains need of further investigation when the subjects are much larger in number.
