The Natural Birth of a Hypothesis

Social scientists today are so much concerned with the application of ever-more-sophisticated methodology to ever-more-complex phenomena that we sometimes neglect the straightforward observation and reporting of simple events from which all science begins. We present this article partly because it is a delightful analysis of an unusual children's game in a depressed town in Nova Scotia, and partly as a reminder that perceptive observation of human behavior is still an important source of fruitful hypotheses that can contribute to the development of behavioral science. The author is an instructor in the department of biology at Northeastern University

Ethnology · Natural (archaeology) · Neglect · Nova scotia · Sociology · Community Health and Development · History · Psychology