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Historical Statement
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... HISTORICAL S1ATE~ENI In 1922 the National Research C ^ ncH authorized the appolntmentof ~ com mitten on sclentlAc problems of human migr~lon, and, subsequently, the ~lvldon of Anthro ~ ogy and Psychology appointed the InId~ conun~tee? The instructions to this com mittee were to study ~ Yerkes, Robert at., The Work of the Committee on SdentlAc Problems of Human ~gratl~, 11 Beseech Council (Reprint Id Circular Serbs of ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ IN ( ~ ~ ~)
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... Such a conference was authorized and held in the National Research Council building and attended by more than twenty persons, representing practically every serious line of migration inquiry, scientific or practical. At that conference each person present was called upon to recommend lines of attack and to substantiate his claims to their urgency.
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... For in the case of "intelligence" a complex assemblage of functions still incompletely analyzed and little understood-certain crude <'tests " have yielded practically helpful results and have pointed the way for the development of more refined and reliable methods. So it may turn out that human personality, and more particularly temperament and character, are amenable to certain crude and inaccurate yet practically useful methods of analysis and rating.
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... This committee recommended a special conference, which was subsequently held in Washington, to which came representatives from the Social Science Research Council, the American Economics Association, the American Sociological Society, the American Political Science Association, and the American Historical Association. Previous to this conference two projects had been suggested, one to comprise a study of individual immigrants, following them up for a period of years; the other a study of an immigrant group or community.
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... Special attention should be given to fertility, life expectation, the vital index of birth rate, death rate, etc. It was the opinion of the sub-committee that additional inquiry along all of these lines is desirable, but they recommended consideration of two specific lines of inquiry: (a)
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