Handbuch der vergleichenden Statistik- der Völkerzustands- und Staatenkunde

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Identifikator:: 826042163

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-35589

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Kolb, Georg Friedrich http://d-nb.info/gnd/118564765

Title:: Handbuch der vergleichenden Statistik- der Völkerzustands- und Staatenkunde

Edition:: 4. umgearb. Aufl.

Place of publication:: Leipzig

Publisher:: Felix

Year of publication:: 1865

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (XX, 548 S.)

Collection:: Economics Books

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THE OBSERVATIONAL METHOD 245 developed. Psychologists will be the first to admit this. The higher we go in the scale of success, the more numer ous and complex the factors which have to be taken into consideration. Until we master those fields of employ ment where the activities involved are comparatively simple, it will be presumptuous to leap at a problem infinitely more difficult. If the observational method is inadequate to analyze the character of ordinary in dividuals, it would be rash to assume that it is able to analyze the exceptional man. OBSERVING RELEVANT ACTIONS As a matter of fact, the observation upon which most of us rely is not so much the observation of appearances as the observation of actions. In this respect, as in the field of pictures, we prefer the moving picture to the old- fashioned photograph. The amount of knowledge about a character which a picture can impart is almost directly determined by the number and kind of actions in which the character takes part. In meeting people, we are Undoubtedly impressed at the very outset by their ap pearance. However, we are quite prepared to modify this impression in the light of their subsequent actions, thus living up to the adage that handsome is as handsome does. Examples of this kind are probably vividly present in the minds of all. One which the writer remembers in particular is that of a young girl about sixteen years old, who came to apply for work as a stenographer. She was below normal size, her face was small and childlike, her hair was in a braid down her back, her manner was ex ceedingly diffident. When she sat down to take the typing test her feet did not reach the floor. So far as appear ances went, she looked like anything but a capable girl,

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