Table 1
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What he said |
What he meant: |
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It has long been known that... |
I haven't bothered to look up the original reference but.... |
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Of great theoretical and practical importance... |
Interesting to me. |
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While it has not been possible to provide definite answers to
these questions... |
The experiment didn't work out, but I figured I could at least
get a publication out of it. |
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The operant conditioning technique was chosen to study the problem... |
The fellow in the next lab already had the equipment set up. |
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Three of the Ss were chosen for detailed study... |
The results on the others didn't make sense. |
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Typical results are shown... |
The best results are shown... |
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Agreement with the predicted curve is: |
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- Excellent
- Good
- Satisfactory
- Fair
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- Fair
- Poor
- Doubtful
- Imaginary
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- It is suggested that...
- It is believed that...
- It may be that...
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I think. |
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It is generally believed that... |
A couple of other guys think so too. |
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It is clear that much additional work will be required before
a complete understanding... |
I don't understand it. |
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Unfortunately, a quantitative theory to account for these results
has not been formulated... |
I can't think of one and neither has anyone else. |
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Correct within an order of magnitude... |
Wrong. |
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Thanks are due to Joe Glotz for assistance with the experiments
and to John Doe for valuable discussion. |
Glotz did the work and Doe explained what it meant. |