STRENGTH TESTS
PRACTICE IN AMERICAN COLLEGES. A review of physical training of women in colleges of the U.S.A, mentions that each year five strength tests are usually given as a part of the physical examination of all entering college women. The question of standards or norms for these measures of strength has been raised. In order to determine whether factors of stature affected the various strength scores and to what degree they did so affect them, the height, weight, and age were taken, together with several strength measures, and intercorrelations were •computed.
For these tentative correlations, the back strength was used as representing a group of big body muscles, and the left forearm was taken because it represented the muscles of one of the extremities which is usually least' affected by ordinary activity. It was considered unnecessary to make the laborious computations for all five measures when they were probably similarly affected by the same factors.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 February 1939, Page 5
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156STRENGTH TESTS Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 February 1939, Page 5
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