Looking back after more than 40 years, Wax concluded that this was just poor judgment: "I was a university student and a researcher. I was not yet ready to accept myself as a total person, and this limited my perspective and my understanding. Those of us who instruct future field workers should encourage them to understand and value their full range of being, because only then can they cope intelligently with the range of experience they will encounter in the field."

(H. Russell Bernard "Research Methods in Anthropology: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches")