Documentation, Statistics
date: label: date made
content: ca 1924-1927
notes: label: Description
content: Between 1924 and 1927, Mark A. May and the Reverend Hugh Hartshorne conducted the Character Education Inquiry under the direction of E.L. Thorndike. This resulted in three volumes on the empirical nature of moral behavior among school children called the Character Education Inquiry. This folder contains an incomplete paper related to “Techniques of …Deception” that contain calculations on the back. It also includes a “memorandum to Dr. Thorndike” dated December 22, 1926, a variety of sheets related to the Thompson formula, and a variety of other formulas.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: Psychology
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of William W. May
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1992.3081.09
label: nonaccession number
content: 1992.3081
label: catalog number
content: 1992.3081.09
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Sheets, Set Of
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: .5 cm x 21.8 cm x 28.5 cm; 3/16 in x 8 19/32 in x 11 7/32 in