… frequency of response is a valuable datum just because it provides a substantial basis for the concept of probability of response—a concept toward which a science of behavior seems to have been groping for many decades. Here is a perfectly good physical referent for that concept. (p. 105)
Cumulative Record. Chapter 8: The Analysis of Behavior. Quote 15
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