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(More customer reviews)I bought this book for a student in an experimental psych course that was using "Measuring the Weight of Smoke" as the text. I thought it could help by being a bit more concise than the text and that it might help to locate contents within the text.
What I found was a pile of typographical errors (they start on the cover, where the second author's name fails to appear after the comma!). Sentences drop off midway through and are never seen again. Perhaps the worst thing, though, is that this is not actually an outline at all, but a list of definitions (and the real text has a fine glossary in the back).
Even at that, there are problems, and the "outline" appears to have been done by someone who has little knowledge of the topic. For example, they define common terms like "politeness" right alongside psychological terms. And some of these common terms are actually defined in more than one chapter summary.
By the way, every other page is just lined space, so you can take "notes" or whatever...
I don't see that this outline offers anything. The actual text is very well-written and does a good job of explaining terms and giving examples, although frequent trips to the glossary are necessary. This outline explains very little and is filled with typos and repetitions. It adds nothing to the actual text, and woe to anyone who thinks they can get away with reading this instead of the text!
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