It has been a common illusion among professional investigators that a science of human behavior can be based on questionnaire surveys accumulating words with an imprecise meaning and subjective bias. The phrase "behavioral science" is itself misleading in that it connotes a body of data objectively describing behavior. In actual fact the greater proportion of studies of human groups by behavioral scientists is only impressionistic and well below the standard of good novelists. The purpose of this paper is to show one method of translating live, observed behavior into meaningful words and numbers.
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