From: T. David Burns (tburns@acm.org)
Date: Fri Apr 11 1997 - 14:42:45 MDT
At 11:15 AM 4/11/97, Robin Hanson wrote:
>Quantitiative analysis has
>ever since been a no-no in history departments, who say the
>"contingent" nature of history makes numerical comparisons
>meaningless.
I'm under the impression that this has worn off somewhat, and now it's very
trendy to do stats work in history. It has a buzzword that I've forgotten.
Not uncontroversial yet, but trendy.
Dave Burns
tburns@acm.org
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Fri Nov 01 2002 - 14:44:21 MST