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“The manipulation of statistical formulas is no substitute for knowing what one is doing.”

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Social Statistics is a comprehensive guide to the field of social statistics, exploring various statistical techniques and their applications in social research. The book delves into the collection and analysis of data, providing insights into the interpretation of statistical findings in the context of social phenomena. more

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Hubert M. Blalock

Hubert M. Blalock was an American sociologist known for his research on race relations and social stratification. His work had a profound impact on understanding the social roots of racial discrimination and poverty. more

“It has been a fortunate fact in the modern history of physical science that the scientist constructing a new theoretical system has nearly always found that the mathematics. . . required. . . had already been worked out by pure mathematicians for their own amusement. . . . The moral for statesmen would seem to be that, for proper scientific "planning", pure mathematics should be endowed fifty years ahead of scientists.”

“How is it possible to suspend topaz in one cup of the balance and weigh it against amethyst in the other; or who in a single language can compare the tranquillizing grace of a maiden with the invigorating pleasure of witnessing a well-contested rat-fight?”

Wells Fighting Language Pleasure Grace Balance Cups Compare Statistics Rats Maidens Invigorating Amethyst Topaz

Book:ERNEST BRAMAH Ultimate Collection: 20+ Novels & Short Stories (Including Max Carrados Mysteries and Kai Lung Fantasy Stories): The Secret of the League, The Coin of Dionysius, The Game Played In the Dark, The Tilling Shaw Mystery, Kai Lung's Golden Hours, The Confession of Kai Lung, The Mirror of Kong Ho and many more

Source: ERNEST BRAMAH Ultimate Collection: 20+ Novels & Short Stories (Including Max Carrados Mysteries and Kai Lung Fantasy Stories): The Secret of the League, The Coin of Dionysius, The Game Played In the Dark, The Tilling Shaw Mystery, Kai Lung's Golden Hours, The Confession of Kai Lung, The Mirror of Kong Ho and many more

“Historians will consider this a dark age. Science historians can read Galileos technical correspondence from the 1590s but not Marvin Minskys from the 1960s.”

Age Dark Statistics Historian 1960s Dark Ages Correspondence Marvin

Book:The Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility

Source: The Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility

“I do not believe in things. I believe in relationships.”

Believe I Believe I Believe In Statistics

Author:Georges Braque

“The basis for poetry and scientific discovery is the ability to comprehend the unlike in the like and the like in the unlike.”

Art Ability Beauty Discovery Bases Statistics Aesthetic Scientific Discovery

Author:Jacob Bronowski

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