Evaluation Concepts & Methods: Shaping Policy for the Health Administrator (Health Systems Management (14), Band 14)

Nutt, Paul C.:

ISBN 10: 089335094X / ISBN 13: 9780893350949

Published by New York: SP Medical & Scientific Books, 1981

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364 p.; figs., tabs Good condition. Reading pages are clean and without marks. Retired library exemplar, with the usual marking. Book shows slight signs of storage and usage. No dust jacket. Still good copy. 9780893350949 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1000.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Evaluation Concepts & Methods: Shaping Policy for the Health Administrator (Health Systems Management (14), Band 14)
• Publisher: New York: SP Medical & Scientific Books
• Publication Date: 1981
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 089335094X
• ISBN 13: 9780893350949
• Binding: Hardcover
• Seller catalogs:
  • Gesundheitswesen

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Synopsis

I constructed four miniature houses of worship-a Mohammedan mosque, a Hindu temple, a Jewish synagogue, a Christian cathedral-and placed them in a row. I then marked 15 ants with red paint and turned them loose. They made several trips to and fro, glancing in at the places of worship, but not entering. I then turned loose 15 more painted blue; they acted just as the red ones had done. I now gilded 15 and turned them loose. No change in the result; the 45 traveled back and forth in a hurry persistently and continuously visiting each fane, but never entering. This satisfied me that these ants were without religious prejudices-just what I wished; for under no other conditions would my next and greater experiment be valuable. I now placed a small square of white paper within the door of each fane; and upon the mosque paper I put a pinch of putty, upon the temple paper a dab of tar, upon the synagogue paper a trifle of turpentine, and upon the cathedral paper a small cube of sugar. First I liberated the red ants. They examined and rejected the putty, the tar and the turpentine, and then took to the sugar with zeal and apparent sincere conviction. I next liberated the blue ants, and they did exactly as the red ones had done. The gilded ants followed. The preceding results were precisely repeated.