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Kinsey’s methods as a sex-researcher were forged with his entomological research. Studying wasps, he learned that the key to biological discovery is in large sample sizes—in collecting as much information as possible, and then charting individual variation. Even Kinsey recognized his scientific practice as a form of collecting:
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Jillian Hess • Alfred Kinsey's Notes on Americans' Sex-Lives
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Michael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
Pister collected all the Owens pupfish left at Fish Slough, with the intention of moving them to a nearby spring. They fit into two buckets. “I distinctly remember being scared to death,” he would later write. “I had walked perhaps fifty yards when I realized that I literally held within my hands the existence of an entire vertebrate species.” Pist
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Michael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
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