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Statistics—The Word
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Abstract
Two views about quantification are expressed by a scientist and a poet. First, Lord Kelvin:
When you can measure what you arc speaking about, and express it in numbers, then you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind.
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