The Classification of Statistics, and Its Results (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Geddes, Patrick

 
9781333801304: The Classification of Statistics, and Its Results (Classic Reprint)

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Explore how a unified system of social statistics can organize our knowledge of society. This book presents a comprehensive framework that classifies facts from geography to demographics, technology, and economy, making it possible to see patterns across different fields.

It argues for a scientific, real?world approach to social data, showing how tables can be read as a balance sheet of territory, production, and the effects of life and work on people. The work emphasizes how organizing information this way can support practical economics and guide conduct, without relying on unfounded theories.

- Learn the structure of the primary tables, from Territory to Production, to Organisms, Occupations, Partition, Use, and Result.
- See how the left (debt) and right (credit) sides of the balance sheet illuminate social facts and relationships.
- Discover how the classification unites economics with biology, demography, anthropology, and education.
- Understand how the framework aims to be universal, applicable to any society, and useful for researchers and practitioners.

Ideal for readers curious about how data can be organized to reveal social laws and for those seeking a practical, science?driven approach to economics and statistics.

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