Our widespread use of statistics is usually accompanied by an almost equally widespread mistrust of them. To live in an advanced industrial society without recourse to batteries of figures on most areas of life would be, literally, unthinkable. For this reason alone it is psychologically as well as socially necessary to assume that the figures we daily consume at least approximate to what (as this is not a book about philosophy) we shall call ‘the truth’.
نظرات کاربران