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Testing reveals a big social problem

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Oscar Kempthorne  and
Lenoy Wolins
Oscar Kempthorne
Affiliation:
Department of Statistics, Iowa State University, Awes, Iowa 50011
Lenoy Wolins
Affiliation:
Departments of Psychology and Statistics, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 5 , Issue 2: Special Symposium Issue , June 1982 , pp. 327 - 336
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