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Revision as of 18:26, 4 May 2010
Quotations
We tolerate the pathologies of quantification — a dry, abstract, mechanical type of knowledge — because the results are so powerful. Numbering things allows tests, comparisons, experiments. Numbers make problems less resonant emotionally but more tractable intellectually. In science, in business and in the more reasonable sectors of government, numbers have won fair and square.
--Gary Wolf
Writing in The data-driven life, New York Times, 26 April 2010
Submitted by Bill Peterson
Forsooth
Fixing the census
Laura Chihara sent the following to the Isolated Statisticians List
The census will be wrong. We could fix it.
by Jordan Ellenberg, Washington Post, 1 May 2010