This very methodin the book"Original Meaning of I Ching"isunique in Chinesehistory of"Studies of Confucian Classics"(Jing-xue)and a maincontent in Neo-confucianismlized Jing-xue.
But the meat of the book is original: Ms Pinker finds out why men and women travelled along different career trajectories by the simple method of asking them.