card sorter
card sorter
[′kärd ‚sȯrd·ər] (computer science)
A machine used to arrange punched cards into an appropriate sequence for further processing. Also known as punched-card sorter.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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The
card sorter arranged stacks of cards, and each category could then be run by the tabulating machine to apply whatever accounting function one chose to use.
(Of course, bi- or multivariate analysis is much easier to accomplish today when the data is in the form of an SPSS file than when it resided on Hollerith punch cards that could only be processed with a
card sorter.) Although Kinsey intended for his study to document and promote tolerance for a wider range of sexual behavior, the American public used his findings mainly to distinguish "natural" behavior from conduct that belonged in the closet.
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