Quote of the day
Good authors, too, who once knew better words
Now only use four-letter words
Writing prose —
Anything goes.
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)