1. Personal Experience, Probability Models, and Wrong-Direction Buses.
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Rodman, Hyman and Peizer, David B.
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PROBABILITY theory , *BUSES , *SOCIOLOGY , *SOCIAL sciences , *STUDENTS , *EXPERIENCE - Abstract
We want to do three things in this paper: (1) to propose a more general probability model than the one considered by Toby or Davies for dealing with the number of buses a student would see, on the average, going in the wrong direction; (2) to show that, with this general model, one would not see more wrong-direction buses, or the same number of wrong-direction buses, as suggested by Toby and Davies, but fewer wrong-direction buses; (8) to question the advisability of using a student's experiences with wrong-direction buses as the way to shake his faith in the validity of personal experience. As Davies has said, clarification is especially necessary now that Toby's paper has appeared in books of readings designed for the course in introductory sociology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1965
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