julian.p.wells wrote
> Incidentally, it has often struck me that, given the
> contents of the journal, Radical Statistics is something of a misnomer:
> "Radical Data" would capture its nature more accurately.
>
the word "statistics" has surely more than one meaning. one of it -
and probably older than most others - is one that comes from the latin
"status" = state (political unit, conditional, physical etc.) and has
got something from "description of the state of the state" in it -
which is usually done with data on social, economic, political etc.
constructs.
as i understood radstats, it is _this_ meaning of data (and
despriptive+inferential statistics) that the "stats" in the list
focusses on.
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