"For some queer and deplorable reason most human beings are more impressed by words than by figures, to the great disadvantage of mankind."
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Jan Tinbergen. "The necessity of quantitative social research." SankhyÄ: The Indian Journal of Statistics, Series B (1973): 141-148.
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