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A psychologist concludes that more light would be shed by understand- ing human behavior factors than from complicated statistical an- alyses of the uncontrolled world surrounding accidents in everyday circumstances. The Illusive Phenomena in Accident PronenessBy WILSE B. WEBB, Ph.D.How shall we determine the presence or ex- tent of accident proneness?Granted the factor of accident proneness, how shall we come to know its character?This, in a sense, will be a consumer's report- a report of occasionally desperate attempts to apply the cool logic of statistics to the fetid jungles of accident data.It is the result of some 5 years of delving into innumerable accident records (1-3) .This faint blaze on my back tracks may help others avoid some of the moras-
Wilse B. Webb (Sat,) studied this question.