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Some Factors Affecting Accuracy in the Collection of Data on the Growth in Weight of School Children^*

(From the Division of Rural Home Research, Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, College Station, Texas)

In following the weight of school children from month to month the data here presented show that accuracy cannot be attained unless, along with attention to the many other influencing factors, the child is weighed,—in a known weight of clothing,—at approximately the same hour of day each month,— with his urinary bladder empty.

Manuscript received 26 June 1930.

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