Manual of Psychometry: The Dawn of a New Civilization, Joseph Rodes Buchanan's 1885 book from Frank H. Hodges, is Buchanan's own primary account of his coining of the term psychometry in 1842 and his early object-reading experiments. Its strength is that it is the founder's own record of the practice's origin, useful as a primary document of what he claimed and when. Its limit is that Buchanan writes as an advocate presenting his own claimed results, not as an independent or peer reviewed evaluation of them.
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Joseph Rodes Buchanan's Manual of Psychometry, Frank H. Hodges, 1885, the middle tier reflecting the founder's own primary record of the practice's 1842 origin, useful as a primary document of what he claimed and when, weighed against its author writing as an advocate presenting his own claimed results rather than as an independent evaluation of them. NotesBuchanan's own account of coining psychometry in 1842 and his early object-reading experiments.
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AuthorJoseph Rodes Buchanan
PublisherFrank H. Hodges
Publication Year1885
Source Typeprimary-text
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