This study investigates the impact of anthropologists' expectations on the results of empirical field studies. Interviewers were provided with one of three different expectation sets concerning the number of riddles they could expect to collect from a sample of college students. Interviewers then collected riddles from these students, and it was discovered that the more riddles an interviewer expected to collect, the more he or she did collect. Sex of the interviewer and the interviewer's previous experience also influenced the number of riddles collected, as did the size of the room in which the interviewing occurred.
Forty-two Friesian bull calves were allocated to two treatments; the animals in one group were individually penned and fed indoors. and those in the other were penned in groups of seven under a lean-to on wooden shavings. The calves were fed reconstituted commercial milk powder for 12 weeks and were then slaughtered.The feed intake and carcass growth of the calves on both treatments were very similar, but the lean-to calves were 5 kg heavier in starved live weight at slaughter, largely because of increased gastrointestinal fill resulting from eating wood shavings. The cut-out data on the carcasses indicated similar composition for the two treatments, with the exception that the calves fed indoors had a higher proportion of perinephric and channel fat, and a slightly greater fat cover and a lower eye muscle area than the lean-to calves.Blood haemoglobin and muscle colour and pigment measurements showed that the calves were not anemic, but the m, longissimus dorsi was very pale. The necessity for anaemia in order to produce white veal of suitable muscle colour is questioned.
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