This method would lead us to conclusions deemed to be acceptable by the scientific community. We had to find the best way to render operational a fairly difficult situation, to take something vague—concepts—and translate them into something which was precise and could be measured.
Il fallait juger de la meilleure façon possible de rendre opérationnelle une situation relativement difficile, de prendre quelque chose de vague, des concepts, et les traduire en quelque chose de mesurable, de précis.