The psychologist who adopts the commoner statistical methods . . . is inclined to rest content with rough measures of behavior because statistics shows him how to “do something about them.” He is likely to continue with fundamentally unproductive methods, because squeezing something of significance out of questionable data discourages the possibly more profitable step of scrapping the experiment and starting again. (p. 366)
Cumulative Record. Chapter 24: The Flight from the Laboratory. Quote 13
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