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"Whatever the principle may be that determined the scientist to set up a group, the traits recorded refer primarily to the individuals that form the group and only indirectly to the group. The individual members of the group are the units of observation. What statistics provides is information about the behavior of individuals forming a group."

"Man is not the member of one group only and does not appear on the scene of human affairs solely in the role of a member of one definite group. In speaking of social groups it must be rememberedthat the members of one group are at the same time members of other groups.The conflict of groups is not a conflict between neatly integrated herds of men.It is a conflict between various concerns in the minds of individuals.