Quote of the day
It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence, to avoid wasting time and labour, and to spare our experimental animals as much as possible, made us strictly observe all the precautions taken by surgeons in respect to their patients.
Otis Dudley Duncan

Born: December 2, 1921
Died: November 16, 2004 (aged 82)
Bio: Otis Dudley Duncan was "the most important quantitative sociologist in the world in the latter half of the 20th century", according to sociologist Leo Goodman.
Known for:
- Notes on social measurement (1984)
- Introduction to structural equation models (1973)
- Metropolis and region (1960)
- Social change in a metropolitan community (1973)






