8 A BIOMETRIC STUDY OF BASAL METABOLISM IN MAN. 



treatment the non-statistical reader must bear as patiently as possible. 

 There is no royal road to statistical analysis, and the popularization 

 of statistical methods is quite comparable with the problem of the 

 popularization of organic or physical chemistry. The demand for 

 simplification can, so far as those of us who have been working in 

 this field can now see, be attained only at a serious loss of effectiveness. 

 To assist the non-statistical reader as much as possible in the under- 

 standing of our results we have added a summary at the end of each 

 chapter in which we have given the results in a form as general and 

 non-statistical as possible. With these precautions, and with the 

 cooperation of those who may attempt to follow us through these 

 pages, we trust that a highly difficult subject has been presented with- 

 out important loss in the technical detail which is essential to those 

 who may care to pursue the subject further and in a manner compre- 

 hensible to the general physiologist. 



