What Is a Great Experiment? A Review of Opening Skinner's Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century
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In the introduction to Opening Skinner's Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century, the author declares that the experiments described in her book “deserve to be not only reported on as research, but also celebrated as story” (p. 3). It is unfortunate that in telling these stories, too much of the science that is also part of the story is sacrificed. The book focuses on personalities and personal anecdote with little substantive discussion of the great experiments that are the stated subject of the book. Though interesting, provocative, even controversial, these stories of the great experiments are incomplete and distorted. The saving grace of the book may be that it forces us to ask: What is a great experiment?
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