Exercise 2 solution

All sums were checked in Python.

(a) 1957 - 1936 = 21 years. Linton's The Study of Man (1936) came 21 years before Merton's role-set paper (1957).
(b) 1936 - 1934 = 2 years. Mead's Mind, Self, and Society (1934) came 2 years before Linton.
(c) 100,000 / 130,101 = 0.7686..., which is 76.9 percent (one decimal place) of the Institution page.
(d) 130,101 - 100,000 = 30,101 characters were not read.

Why the quotations may still be reliable: the part that was read is a complete run from the start of the page, so each quotation comes from text the summary actually covered; the unread part does not change what the read part says.

Why not to conclude there are no criticisms: about 23.1 percent of the page (100 - 76.9, my arithmetic) was never seen, so a criticism or limitations section could sit in that unread part. Absence from what I read is not absence from the page. This is the same caution as in the Chapter 5 solution about the Bureaucracy page.