DANGER OF CONCEIT.
FACTOR IN MOTOR ACCIDENTS. Conceit, which has been blamed for many shortcomings in man, is now coming to be recognised as of great importance in the causation of motor vehicle accidents. An American scient- . ist, Dr. Paul Schroeder, says that it is the egocentrisc mar\, rather than the man of low intelligence. An appreciation of the rigbts of others on the highways appears to be a more important qualihcation of a driver than even normal intelligence. Dr Schroeder, who is a State crimonologist for Illinois, reeently made a study of the records of all prisoners at the State penitentiary at Joliet who bad been convicted of manslaughter with a motor vehicle. He found that these men were all of average intelligence.
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Rotorua Morning Post, 28 August 1931, Page 4
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124DANGER OF CONCEIT. Rotorua Morning Post, 28 August 1931, Page 4
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