Arthur Lyon Bowley Quote

Great numbers are not counted correctly to a unit, they are estimated; and we might perhaps point to this as a division between arithmetic and statistics, that whereas arithmetic attains exactness, statistics deals with estimates, sometimes very accurate, and very often sufficiently so for their purpose, but never mathematically exact.


Elements of Statistics, Part I, Chapter I (p. 3), P.S. King & Son Ltd. 1937


Great numbers are not counted correctly to a unit, they are estimated; and we might perhaps point to this as a division between arithmetic and...

Great numbers are not counted correctly to a unit, they are estimated; and we might perhaps point to this as a division between arithmetic and...

Great numbers are not counted correctly to a unit, they are estimated; and we might perhaps point to this as a division between arithmetic and...

Great numbers are not counted correctly to a unit, they are estimated; and we might perhaps point to this as a division between arithmetic and...