Contingencies of Reinforcement. Chapter 5: Operant behavior. Quote 6

“When a variable is changed and the effect on performance observed, it is for most purposes idle to prove statistically that a change has indeed occurred. (It is sometimes said in such a case that the organism is “used as its own control,” but the expression, borrowed from a basically different methodology, is potentially troublesome.)” (p. 111)

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