- Introduction: Arguing from Social Facts
- Prefects and Geometers
- Judges and Astronomers
- Averages and the Realism of Aggregates
- Correlation and the Realism of Causes
- Statistics and the State: France and Great Britain
- Statistics and the State: Germany and the United States
- The Part for the Whole: Monographs or Representative Sampling
- Classifying and Encoding
- Modeling and Adjusting
- Conclusion: Disputing the Indisputable


The Politics of Large Numbers
A History of Statistical Reasoning
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Publication Date: 09/15/2002