Of quantity and quality
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Black, R. D. Collison. 'Of quantity and quality'. - Dublin: Journal of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland,Vol. XXV No. 3, 1985/86, pp209-233Download Item:
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Abstract:
In the social sciences generally, and in Economics in
particular, one of the perennial themes of debate has been
the merits and demerits of mathematical and statistical
methods on the one hand and literary, philosophical and
historical methods on the other. At the cost of some
sacrifice of accuracy to brevity, I shall henceforth refer
to the advocates and practitioners of the former approach as
the quantifiers, and of the latter approach as the
qualifiers.
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Read before the Society 15th May 1986
Author: Black, R. D. Collison
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Journal of The Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of IrelandVol. XXV No. 3 1985/1986
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