Monday, March 5, 2018

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

From Informal Sociology: A Casual Introduction to Sociological Thinking by William Bruce Cameron.
It would be nice if all of the data which sociologists require could be enumerated because then we could run them through IBM machines and draw charts as the economists do. However, not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

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