THE EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENT OF A SOCIAL HIERARCHY IN GALLUS DOMESTICUS: II. THE IDENTIFICATION AND INFERENTIAL MEASUREMENT OF SOCIAL REFLEX NO. 1 AND SOCIAL REFLEX NO. 2 BY MEANS OF SOCIAL DISCRIMINATION.

The article presents information on the experimental measurement of a social hierarchy in Gallus Domesticus. The experiment is related to the identification and inferential measurement of social reflexes by the means of social discrimination. The first paper in this preliminary series of experiments narrates the general story of the method of attack on the time and space measurement of social phenomena. The article also presents a brief abstract of the findings of that paper. In the experiment, six young roosters were arranged in a hierarchy of dominance, the order being determined by the number of individuals in the group that each rooster is able to defeat in physical combat. This was followed by the application of the simple measurements of time and space. It was pointed out that this method of measurement and analysis was initiated as a result of reflecting on the discussion of conditions in the social sciences by other psychologists. Social discrimination in Gallus domesticus is identified as it is measured in the social discrimination cage. When the discriminations are plotted against mass, there is no indication that the discriminations are any more than chance.