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funds to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences to study the societal impact of the space program. A major product of that grant was a book entitled Social Indicators (Bauer, 1966), now acknowledged to be the cornerstone of the social indicators movement (Sheldon, 1975). In the decade since Bauer's work appeared, hundreds of published and presented papers and dozens of books have been produced on social indicators
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Richard M. Jaeger (1978) studied this question.
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