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Statistical Architecture

By Stuart Buck, Esq.

I liked this passage from a 2008 article by Gary King and Eleanor Neff Powell: There are ?elds of study that have not yet been revolutionized by increasing quanti?cation and modern statistics, but its an easy prediction that this will eventually happen given enough enterprising scholars, wherever it would be useful (and unfortunately, at other times too!). Certainly the opportunities for intellectual arbitrage are enormous. To take one example, for clarity outside our ?eld, consider architecture. By far, the most expensive decisions universities make are about buildings and their physical plant. Yet architecture as a ?eld is composed primarily of engineers who keep buildings up and qualitative creative types who invent new designs: quantitative social scientists do not frequently get jobs in schools of design...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Buck Stops Here on January 20, 2011 (boomark / email).