The comparative sensitiveness of blind and seeing persons

The blind have unquestioned superiority in their ability to use their touch, hearing, and other senses for guidance. From observation of this, the conclusion is generally drawn that the sensitivity of their sense organs is correspondingly heightened. We finally found an opportunity to put the matter to an accurate and crucial test. Sixteen blind students from the Iowa College for the Blind at Vinton, Iowa, and fifteen pupils from the Iowa City High School were selected as cases for comparison. The ages of the blind ranged from sixteen to twenty-six and of the seeing from fourteen to nineteen. The general conclusion then so far as the net results of the facts are concerned must be this, that, while there are slight differences shown in the Tables, there is no significant constant tendency in the records to favor either the blind or the seeing. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)