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Unlike in the Natural Sciences, the process of observing may change people's behaviour...

 

In a classic observation, the leader of the juvenile gang being observed by Whyte ("Doc"), put his finger on this problem when he said to Whyte:

"You've slowed me up plenty. Now when I do something I have to think 'what would Bill Whyte want to know about it?'. 

Before I used to do things by instinct.".