“Project Pigeon demonstrated my point about statistics beautifully. You cannot put the “average pigeon” into a missile. It must be one real pigeon, and it must behave precisely in a given way under many distracting circumstances. Our pigeons behaved exactly as we wanted them to, and so far as I am concerned, Project Pigeon should have been the end of the “average organism” in the study of behavior.” (p. 132)
