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by malcolmgreaves
793 days ago
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This post reminds me of a quote: > Not everything that can be counted counts. Not everything that counts can be counted. Like any good maxim, the original author is lost to time. But this [1] traces it to: > It would be nice if all of the data which sociologists require could be enumerated because then we could run them through IBM machines and draw charts as the economists do. However, not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. Which is from William Bruce Cameron's 1963 text “Informal Sociology: A Casual Introduction to Sociological Thinking.” [1] https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/26/everything-counts-e... |
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