A conflict over quantitative versus qualitative scientific priorities can kill research publication.

Evidence

Further work on the labour project later on consisted only of the Institute’s directors commissioning Lazarsfeld to produce a publishable version of the report, while Adorno tried to round the undertaking off with a series of detailed memoranda. Adorno, Marcuse and others at the Institute agreed, however, that the version produced under Lazarsfeld’s supervision did not meet the Institute’s standards, because it emphasized the quantitative sections while neglecting the qualitative ones, and because of its inadequate integration of quantitative and qualitative analysis. As in the case of the study of the working class in Weimar Germany, therefore, the research was not published. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 393

Categorization

• XREF: Directly parallels the Weimar workers’ study suppressed by Horkheimer — the Institute had a repeat pattern of completing and then shelving empirical labor research. — connects to: Operational precision in empirical research sacrifices what is socially relevant. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 497; Excluding class conflict from workplace research distorts what the research measures — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 517
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Operational precision in empirical research sacrifices what is socially relevant. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 497; Excluding class conflict from workplace research distorts what the research measures — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 517