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II2 An American Dilemma
always, to an extent determined by exposure to education, form part of
the raw material out of which actual beliefs are shaped. But in the analysis
of beliefs they contribute the objective norms in relation to which the degree
of incomfleteness and the degree and direction of falsification of the actual
beliefs can be scientifically ascertained and measured. As the distortion of
truth in the beliefs is assumed to signify the opportunism of the latter, its
measurement opens the door to a scientific study of the fundamental con^
fiicts in valuations,^
The main conclusion from this conjectural discussion of racial beliefs is,
therefore, that a set of most fascinating research problems of great theoret-
ical and practical importance is waiting for investigation. Such studies will
demonstrate to what extent the hypotheses developed above will hold true
when tested against properly recorded research data.
• See Appendix i, Section 3 .
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