Browsing JSSISI: Journal of The Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1847- by Subject "History of statistical analysis"
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Measurement, measures and the millennium - the Society's activities in a long perspective
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1988)"But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists and calculators has succeeded " (Edmund Burke, 1790). Nevertheless, the economists and calculators had begun their work well before the day when Burke made ...