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out of the exercise until the main portion of the data was com- 

 pleted. Then a sample rating was worked out before the class 

 and the method explained as fully as pos- 



Proceduro was sible in the short time available. After 

 standardized and giving the work to several hundred peo- 

 carefully guarded. pie and discussing many angles and ques- 

 tions from instructors and bodies of keen 



students, the writer is convinced that there were few constant 

 errors that might seriously affect the ultimate results. 9 



The men were seated as in a regular class or laboratory 

 period. Each man was asked to make a list of fourteen or fifteen 

 farmers whom he knew very well preferably neighbors in his 

 home community actually engaged in producing crops or stock 

 or both for market. From this list thirteen names were finally 

 copied in the left hand column of Form "B". After a 

 careful reading of the definition for each column, each 

 group was ranked for all of the columns, the completed report 

 appearing as shown. Finally each student stated at the bottom 

 of his report sheet that all of the men were farmers, and that he 

 knew them very well. He also indicated the type of farming 

 most nearly characteristic of the entire group. Reports without 

 these statements or having material modifications were not used 

 in the final computations. 



9. Under the later discussion of reliability certain unavoid- 

 able and perhaps not very serious weaknesses of the method will 

 be discussed. 



