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The Politics of Large Numbers: A History of Statistical Reasoning
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EngineeringGeometrics JudgesStatistical FoundationSocial SciencesProbabilistic ReasoningAggregates CorrelationStatisticsPlausible ReasoningStatistical ThinkingSampling (Statistics)Large NumbersReasoningImprecise ProbabilitySociologyStatistical InferenceQuantitative Social Science ResearchGreat Britain StatisticsPolitical ScienceSurvey Methodology
Introduction - arguing from social facts prefects and geometrics judges and astronomers averages and the realism of aggregates correlation and the realism of causes statistics and the state - France and Great Britain statistics and the state - Germany and the United States the part for the whole - monographs or representative sampling classifying and encoding modelling and adjusting conclusion - disputing the indisputable.