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...Maher, who devoted most of his lecture to a description of his own experiments with conflict situations in children and schizophrenics, attempted to convey a sense of the extraordinary complexity involved in the problems of measurement and interpretation of experimental data...
...first problem involved in his experiments consisted in designing what Maher humorously called "a child's mind-changing apparatus." "We were concerned," he said, "with the processes that take place while a decision is being made...
...experiments, Dr. Maher attempted to determine if there were any particular personality traits associated with indecisiveness. He explained yesterday that a behavioral scientist works under very real limitations: "We simply have no idea what's going on in a child's head. Therefore we must speculate, and we are often led astray by our own speculations...
...Maher believes that any theory must rise out of well-grounded data; he avoided passing on to the audience any sort of abstract generalizations...
...behavioral scientist, he feels, must avoid the temptation to settle into secure theories that eventually will color his own perception of actual occurrences. Quipped Maher: "theory is cheery, but data is greater...