100 MODES OF RESEARCH IN GENETICS 



knowledge in general as a higher kind of knowledge 

 than that derived in other ways. Nor is the 

 statistical method to become the dominant or 

 exclusive method of science, though it will always 

 be useful, and in many fields an essential method. 

 It will find its chief usefulness, first in its sphere 

 of furnishing shorthand descriptions of groups, 

 and second in furnishing a test of the probable 

 reliability of conclusions. 



