Date: Thu, 18 Aug 1994 16:41:37 -0500 (EST) From: wesley david cecil <wcecil-AT-indiana.edu> Subject: Re: Normativity and stats (was Marxism and academia) Quite right and thanks Andy, my point was that any attempt to arrive at "real world" statistics involves us in all the old epistemological(and therefore I would argue ontological) swamps. Not that we shouldn't try and not that it is not useful, after all this would seem to me what Marx was up to, but that trying to argue for real world stats vs. academic musings simply obscures all of the academic musings underwriting all of our nice stats. Wes ------------------
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