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I AM much reassured by what Dr. Fürth has said, since he has made it clear that his intention was to object to the ‘indiscriminate’ application of statistical methods to social problems, rather than to suggest that the use of those methods was necessarily misleading. I do not, in fact, see much evidence of misuse of statistics in this way by my academic colleagues; but I agree that less-sophisticated people are often led into errors of this kind, and it is useful to point it out.
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SIMEY, T. Physics of Social Equilibrium. Nature 168, 1049 (1951). https://doi.org/10.1038/1681049a0
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