ABSTRACT
Methods of securing life-history materials have been improving faster perhaps than methods of analyzing them. This is especially true when a large number of life-history documents are involved. In the course of a study carried on by the Sub-Committee on the Function of Home Activities in the Education of the Child under Section IIIA of the White House Conference on Child Health and Protection it was felt desirable to analyze a large number of life history documents. Among the materials collected by the Sub-Committee were some of 600 documents from college students consisting of a questionnaire and a life-history. Some of the most important life history material, dealing with elaborate patterns rather than magnitudes, perhaps should not be forced into a quantitative mould. The little investigation has reported tends to give further confidence in the objectivity of life history materials.
