| Details | | Publication Date: | 1990-10-01 |
| Size | | Length: | 208 pages | | Height: | 9.8 in | | Width: | 6.5 in | | Thickness: | 0.8 in | | Weight: | 18.4 oz |
Publisher's Note Written for researcher and methodologists in the fields of psychology, education, and the behavioral sciences, this volume looks at the two major types of methods--the method of relative frequency and the method of specimens--and argues that although both can deliver useful information about human behavior, most social scientists have been using the method of relative frequency for the wrong purpose--to discover how the human as a species, functions. The method of relative frequency can be used effectively, Runkel asserts, only to estimate behavioral trends in a mass population. To learn how the internal workings of a species enable it to do what it does, the method of specimens must be employed.
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