Practical applications of the punched card method in colleges and universities

ABSTRACT THE use of tabulating machines of the Hollerith electric or other types for statistical and recording work of all kinds has increased to a remarkable extent during the past fifty

years. It is not, however, generally appreciated how valuable these devices have proved themselves not only in large-scale and intricate accountancy systems but also in actual statistical

research in the wide and varied field of social science. The present work describes their use mainly in colleges and universities, for example, in the registrar's and business office

and miscellaneous administrative applications, and in psychological, educational, medical, hospital, legal and agricultural research. In their present wonderfully improved form, the

Hollerith machines work automatically with such speed and unerring accuracy in complicated statistical manipulations that, to the uninitiated, they seem like uncanny ‘robots' of

superhuman efficiency. _Practical Applications of the Punched Card Method in Colleges and Universities_ Edited by G. W. Baehne. Pp. xxiii + 442. (New York: Columbia University Press; London:

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Method in Colleges and Universities. _Nature_ 136, 415 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136415a0 Download citation * Issue Date: 14 September 1935 * DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/136415a0

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