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... Error in Hearing Decreases with Age 81. Apparatus for Finding the Middle Tone 82. Finding the Threshold of Intensity for Hearing 111 113 115 83. Method of Indicating Intensity in Notes . 84. Series of Notes According to Duration 85 ...
... Error in Hearing Decreases with Age 81. Apparatus for Finding the Middle Tone 82. Finding the Threshold of Intensity for Hearing 111 113 115 83. Method of Indicating Intensity in Notes . 84. Series of Notes According to Duration 85 ...
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... error . The first is the error of prejudice . Grandmother M. has used Dr. Swindle's liver pills all her life long . She always believed they would do her good ; she remembers the dozen times she happened to feel better after taking them ...
... error . The first is the error of prejudice . Grandmother M. has used Dr. Swindle's liver pills all her life long . She always believed they would do her good ; she remembers the dozen times she happened to feel better after taking them ...
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... errors of prejudice be avoided ? In Germany the court sends for any expert it pleases ; his pay is $ 2 a day with no ... error ? Several ways are possible . We may use moral suasion . We may partly remove the motives by agreeing to ...
... errors of prejudice be avoided ? In Germany the court sends for any expert it pleases ; his pay is $ 2 a day with no ... error ? Several ways are possible . We may use moral suasion . We may partly remove the motives by agreeing to ...
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... error is that of unconscious additions . Play the game of twenty questions . The company choose some object and some one who does not know what has been chosen has to guess it from the answers " Yes " or " No " to his questions . Stop ...
... error is that of unconscious additions . Play the game of twenty questions . The company choose some object and some one who does not know what has been chosen has to guess it from the answers " Yes " or " No " to his questions . Stop ...
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An Introduction to Mental Science Edward Wheeler Scripture. This source of error , as Wundt has pointed out , renders almost absolutely worthless an enormous amount of painstaking work in animal psychology . The facts are observed and ...
An Introduction to Mental Science Edward Wheeler Scripture. This source of error , as Wundt has pointed out , renders almost absolutely worthless an enormous amount of painstaking work in animal psychology . The facts are observed and ...
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Page 181 - ... probably never in all their lives received one genuine colour-sensation. The modern religionists of the school of Overbeck are just like people who eat slate-pencil and chalk, and assure everybody that they are nicer and purer than strawberries and plums.
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