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This chapter reviews the author’s experience of being a participant in psychological experiments, which determines how, with such an obstreperous subject, researchers get results. Being able to disregard erratic responses depends on having enough subjects, as the more subjects there are, the easier it is to designate some responses as unusable and still have enough subjects left to make an adequate sample. The chapter emphasizes that no matter how many subjects are in an experiment, there is still the question of why most subjects fall within the average responses and do not have to be rejected. The chapter explains that the technique of normalizing data does not belong to experimental psychology alone but is widely used in statistical operations in many fields. Experimenters define categories such as age, gender, race, or socioeconomic status based on conceptions of these categories that are commonly accepted within their discipline.
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