COLOUR REPRESENTATION.
Highest.--Perfectly distinct, bright, and natural.
First Suboctile.--White cloth, blue china, argand coffee-pot, buff stand with sienna drawing, toast--all clear.
First Octile.--All details seen perfectly.
First Quartile.--Colours distinct and natural till I begin to puzzle over them.
Middlemost.--Fairly distinct, though not certain that they are accurately recalled.
Last Quartile.--Natural, but very indistinct.
Last Octile.--Faint; can only recall colours by a special effort for each.
Last Suboctile.--Power is nil.
Lowest.--Power is nil.
Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development
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Sir Francis Galton
