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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
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)
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