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The first thing which strikes one on examining this table is its uniformity. It is a striking proof of the objective value of the results obtained, a value deriving from the certitude of great numbers.
Let us examine some of the points :
a) In the three towns, although each is so different from the others, the children of 1 1 , 12 and 13 years of age show the same preference : the comical scenes.
b) In the three towns, dramas suddenly come into favour (for reasons which we do not know) among children of between 11 and 12 years of age (11 at Neuchatel, 12 at Lausanne and Geneva).
c) The effects of the war tend to modify the childrens' tastes. At Nauchatel, where the enquiry was largely terminated before the war, topical films take last place (with one exception : among children of 11 years they take third place). At Lausanne and Geneva, on the contrary, where the enquiry was made during the war, topical subjects — which at that period consisted mainly of war films — occupy the first and second places, without exception.
d) The preference of the children for topical subjects allows us also to note change of taste according to the age of the children. This change is manifested with equal regularity at Lausanne and at Geneva. The younger children prefer comical scenes, while the older prefer topical subjects. The only difference is the period when the change takes place : at Lausanne it occurs at 15 years, and at Geneva at the age of 14.
e) One of the most surprising instances of regulariy that the enquiry revealed was the decline in favour of comical scenes among the school children of Geneva. Among children of from 11 to 13 years comical scenes take first place, among those of 14 years second place, among those of 15 third place, and fourth place among those of 16.
/) If we leave the topical subjects aside and deal only with the other three, a new uniformity appears in the answers of the schoolchildren of the three towns, which is even more general than the preceding ones. In fact, eliminating topical subjects, we obtain the following table :
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