ABSTRACT
McDougall’s freedom was my variance. McDougall hoped that variance would always be found in specifying the laws of behavior, for there freedom might still persist. I hoped then—less wise than I think I am now (it was 31 years ago)—that science would keep pressing variance towards zero as a limit. At any rate this general fact emerges from this example: freedom, when you believe it is operating, always resides in an area of ignorance. If there is a known law, you do not have freedom.
