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Quotations to help thinking about quantitative thinking


  1. “Quantification was a wImageay of claiming status… even the social anthropologists counted coconuts” (McCloskey, who, for the avoidance of doubt, was not suggesting this is a good thing!)
  2. “Measurements presuppose theories” (Popper)
  3. Even when just describing a new dataset  “we cannot avoid applying to it certain abstract ideas, acquired from somewhere or other but certainly not just from the new observations alone.” (Freud)
  4. Quantification is not something “that can effectively be sought by measuring” (Kuhn)

Author AndiPosted on 16 December 201320 February 2022

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