The country is hungry for information ; everything of a statistical character, or even of a statistical appearance, is taken up with an eagerness that is almost pathetic ; the community have not yet learned to be half skeptical and critical enough in... I. Statistics in Colleges - Page 27by Carroll Davidson Wright - 1888 - 80 pagesFull view - About this book
| Massachusetts - 1876 - 388 pages
...once given, the choice of agencies, the selection of inquiries to be propounded, are easy and plain. The country is hungry for information ; everything...and critical enough in respect to such statements. All this is favorable to such laudable efforts as you are engaged in, for the difficulty of collecting... | |
| Massachusetts. Department of Labor and Industries. Division of Statistics - 1874 - 310 pages
...once given, the choice of agencies, the selection of inquiries to be propounded, arc easy and plain. The country is hungry for information : everything...community have not yet learned to be half skeptical and eritical enough in respect to such statements. All this is favorable to such laudable efforts аэ... | |
| Charles Felton Pidgin - 1876 - 116 pages
...once given, the choice of agencies, the selection of inquiries to be propounded, are easy and plain. The country is hungry for information; everything...and critical enough in respect to such statements. All this is favorable to such laudable efforts as you are engaged in, for the difficulty of collecting... | |
| Charles Felton Pidgin - 1876 - 104 pages
...once given, the choice of agencies, the selection of inquiries to be propounded, are easy and plain. The country is hungry for information ; everything...and critical enough in respect to such statements. All this is favorable to such laudable efforts as you are engaged in, for the difficulty of collecting... | |
| Iowa. Bureau of Labor - 1887 - 436 pages
...constantly and rapidly growing. Gen. Walker, the justly famous statistician of the United States, *ays: "The country is hungry for information; everything...an eagerness that is almost pathetic. The community has not yet learned to be half skeptical and critical enough in respect to such statements." Hon. Carroll... | |
| North Carolina. Department of Labor and Printing - 1887 - 264 pages
...the United States, says: "The country is hungry for information; everything of a statistical nature, or even of a statistical appearance is taken up with an eagerness that is almost pathetic." Another writer says on the same subject: " One of the greatest of all the defects of modern law-making,... | |
| North Carolina. Department of Labor and Printing - 1887 - 264 pages
...the United States, says: "The country is hungry for information; everything of a statistical nature, or even of a statistical appearance is taken up with an eagerness that is almost pathetic." Another writer says on the same subject: " One of the greatest of all the defects of modern law-making,... | |
| American Statistical Association - 1910 - 676 pages
...once given, the choice of agencies, the selection of inquiries to be propounded, are easy and plain. The country is hungry for information; everything...pathetic ; the community have not yet learned to be half sceptical and critical enough in respect to such statements. All this is favorable to such laudable... | |
| 1897 - 420 pages
...once given, the choice of agencies, the selection of inquiries to be propounded, are easy and plain. The country is hungry for information ; everything...pathetic; the community have not yet learned to be half sceptical and critical enough in respect to such statements. All this is favorable to such laudable... | |
| American Statistical Association - 1891 - 490 pages
...distinguished statistician of the United States which appeared in the report for 1874. The words were : " The country is hungry for information ; everything...taken up with an eagerness that is almost pathetic." At that time the results of the Ninth United States Census were being given to the public. The Massachusetts... | |
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