Recent Issues. Chapter 12: The Behavior of Organisms at Fifty. Quote 6

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Post published:April 8, 2019
Post category:Skinner's Quote of the Day

“Rate of responding has proved, in fact, to be a highly useful dependent variable. In a later paper I could report that it varied usefully over a range of at least 600 to 1.” (pp. 123-124)

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SKINNER'S QUOTE OF THE DAY

“Rate of responding has proved, in fact, to be a highly useful dependent variable. In a later paper I could report that it varied usefully over a range of at least 600 to 1.” (pp. 123-124)

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