Fortunately, a statistical program is unnecessary. Most of what we know about the effects of complex schedules of reinforcement has been learned in a series of discoveries no one of which could have been proved to the satisfaction of a student in Statistics A. Moreover, a statistical approach is just wrong. The curves we get cannot be averaged or otherwise smoothed without destroying properties which we know to be of first importance. (p. 174)
Cumulative Record. Chapter 11: Reinforcement Today. Quote 28
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