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A Study Of The Comparison Of Interests Of Social Science Majors With The Interests Of Other Adults As Measured By The Kuder Preference Record, James E. Comer Jr.
A Study Of The Comparison Of Interests Of Social Science Majors With The Interests Of Other Adults As Measured By The Kuder Preference Record, James E. Comer Jr.
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This study was undertaken to compare the interests of social science majors with the interests of other adults based on data gathered from a survey of male students of Kansas State Teachers College, Pittsburg, Kansas. A differentiation between preferences of social science majors and those of the general population was made using Fisher's discriminant function.
A group of 121 social science majors were tested by means of a special mailing form (Form C) of the Ruder Preference Record. Sixty-two valid returns were used in this study.
The mean raw scores of the Social Science Majors tended to show a pattern …