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1 online resource (vi, 265 pages) |
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Print version record. |
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"Contrary to the practices and pretensions of the professions, a review of the well-considered thoughts of the people, devoid of the special trappings of statistics and the experiments of the scientist, but nevertheless fully as critical as a research monograph, may serve in many a place, we feel, to initiate much-needed remediation. Our experience leads us to believe that such an approach would have much to offer in formulating accident-prevention programs. In our study we secured "specifics" from drivers--pleasure, bus, truck, and taxi--from pedestrians, through newspaper clippings, and by direct observation of driving habits, some fourteen sources in all. One of these was interviews, conducted by students of psychology with several hundreds of drivers, many of whom were the survivors of serious collisions. The latter in many instances had tasted of the ashes of death but had lived to tell the tale. Such interviews yielded insight not to be had solely from inspections of wrecks, however thorough and objective. Treating as evidence rather than as fact all the data thus obtained we ruminated upon the returns. We tried throughout to employ the logical and statistical precautions characteristic of the rigorous evaluation of contradictory evidence. Such a course is unpopular. The path to be traveled is tortuous and stony. But scientific disinterestedness requires a willingness to hew to the truth and let the chips fall where they may"--Foreword. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved). |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL |
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Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Automobile drivers.
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Traffic accidents.
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Automobile drivers. (OCoLC)fst00822850
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Traffic accidents. (OCoLC)fst01153997
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| Added Author |
Haven, S. Edson (Seth Edson), 1905- author.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Toops, Herbert Anderson, 1895- Psychology and the motorist. Columbus, O., R.G. Adams and Co., 1938 (DLC) 38012196 (OCoLC)1660906 |
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