Titlebook: Sociology and Statistics in Britain, 1833–1979; Plamena Panayotova Book 2020 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclus

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Introductionition of academic sociology and on statistics understood as an indispensable scientific tool and outlook. It argues that while the relationship between statistics and sociology is very much a current issue, still a topic of heated debate, the study of this relationship is of genuine historical impor

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A New Perspective—The Evolution of Statistics, 1660–1935nce of statistical thinking initiated some major changes in the understanding, analysis, manipulation and prediction of social phenomena that played a vital role in the emergence and realisation of the idea of an empirical social science. The chapter also looks at eighteenth- and nineteenth-century

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The Statistical Work of Section F of the BAAS: Between the Hammer of Politics and the Anvil of Scien the nineteenth century. It shows that Section F strived hard to meet contemporary scientific standards but that their attempts to keep statisticians and their work out of politics were largely unsuccessful. However, the limited success of the statisticians’ attempts to distinguish between facts and

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The Legacy of the Statistical Society of London—, and Beyondarate statistical enquiry from politics. Although the debate exposed the weaknesses in the Society’s work, it also helped define the role of the statistician in society and reinforced the view that arguments that have no empirical basis cannot be accepted as valid for the purpose of science. Out of

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