At the beginning of all experimental work stands the choice of the appropriate technique of investigation.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
One experiments and has to choose always the best results.
Experimentation is an active science.
It is necessary to look at the results of observation objectively, because you, the experimenter, might like one result better than another.
Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 - 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go.
My first undertaking in the way of scientific experiment was in the field of economics and psychology.
Good psychology should include all the methodological techniques, without having loyalty to one method, one idea, or one person.
But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object.
Most of the research which is done is determined by the requirement that it shall, in a fairly obvious and predictable way, reinforce the approved or fashionable theories.
The problem with experiments has always been that human beings make the decisions on whether or not the animals have benefitted from the treatment.
About 1960, it became clear that it was best for me to bring the experimental part of my research program to a close - there was too much to do on the theoretical aspects - and I began the process of winding down the experiments.
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