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Definition of Norms
1. norm [n] - See also: norm
Lexicographical Neighbors of Norms
Literary usage of Norms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ethics: An Investigation of the Facts and Laws of the Moral Life by Wilhelm Max Wundt, Edward Bradford Titchener, Margaret Floy Washburn, Julia Henrietta Gulliver (1901)
"(h) Fundamental norms of Law. Legal duties, the most important of which are simply
particular applications of moral duties, are, like the latter, ..."
2. Manual of Mental and Physical Tests: A Book of Directions Compiled with by Guy Montrose Whipple (1914)
"(1) The best norms of stature are doubtless those calculated by Boas (4)1 from
... Cal.2 For the sake of comparison with these norms and with the norms for ..."
3. The Individual Delinquent: A Text-book of Diagnosis and Prognosis for All by William Healy (1915)
"To present a detailed statement concerning the interpretation of psychological
tests, their standards, norms and variabilities, is here quite out of our ..."
4. Illicit Drug Use, Smoking and Drinking by America's High School Students by Lloyd D. Johnston, Patrick M. O'Malley, Jerald G. Bachman (1993)
"PEER norms AS PERCEIVED BY YOUNG ADULTS Table 34 gives the current status and
trends in peer norms for the same two age bands discussed in earlier chapters: ..."
5. The Psychology of Musical Talent by Carl Emil Seashore (1919)
"norms FOR VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE norms for interpretation. ... But this is only
halfway, for it remains to establish norms for the interpretation of the ..."
6. Methods and Results of Testing School Children: Manual of Tests Used by the by Evelyn Dewey, Emily Child, Beardsley Ruml (1920)
"A further point must be made regarding the nature of the norms. ... Other groups
yielding norms which vary from those of the present group may also ..."
7. The Social Composition of the Teaching Population: By Lotus Delta Coffman by Lotus Delta Coffman (1911)
"LEGAL norms The problem, however, could be approached in various ways. The composition
of the teaching population may be measured by the statutory norms ..."
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