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A mature science, with respect to the matter of errors in variables, is not one that measures its variables without error, for this is impossible. It is, rather, a science which properly manages its errors, controlling their magnitudes and correctly calculating their implications for substantive conclusions.

Otis Dudley Duncan

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Otis Dudley Duncan

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:
  1. Notes on social measurement (1984)
  2. Introduction to structural equation models (1973)
  3. Metropolis and region (1960)
  4. Social change in a metropolitan community (1973)

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