The Effects of a Threatening Rumor on a Disaster-Stricken Community (1958) / Chapter Skim
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If research is to be clone on disaster, it is necessary to conduct field studies of actual catastrophes in such a fashion that they provide comparable data, even though there is serious question about the kinds of hypo1:he se s which can be te sted under the se relatively uncon trolled conditions. Descriptive field studies in stricken communities India ate the kinds of problem which later can be examined more systematically.
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In the absence of any unified theory from which an organized set of hypotheses might be drawn, the Port Pelvis incident was examined largely in descriptive terms. A large body of data was gathered with the use of careful sampling, interviewing, and coding techniques, in the hope that it would be amenable to comparison to future studies, similarly conducted, and that it would begin to sugge st hypothe s e s which could be tested and retested in other catastrophic situations.
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In the Port Jervis study, a careful estimate is made of the empirical validity of data obtained from the interviews; it remains to be seen whether a match exi sts with data from actual dis asters. If the match is pock, of course, the study of rumors will have to remain relatively independent from the study of real disaster.
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AUG. 19 - 1955 Shaded portion equals flooded orsos ERIE RR TO N.Y.
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