Listener: 1 April, 1989 Keywords: Statistics; The basic message in Marilyn Waring’s book Counting for Nothing: What Men Value and What Women are Worth is correct, as those of us who worked on related problems in the early 1970s are well aware. The economist’s account of the world is a limited one, ignoring very important…
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Conference of Users of Official Statistics 11-12 November, Wellington, 1979? Keywords: Statistics; I suspect I was invited to give this paper as one of the research workers in New Zealand most dependent upon official statistics. From one point of view then, I am experienced over a very wide range of official statistics and…
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New Zealand Statistician, vol 8, May 1973, p8-9. Keywords: Statistics; It may seem strange that V.I. Lenin, (1870-1924) should be treated as a statistician. However, in its section on statistics the Soviet Encyclopedia [1] gives considerable prominence to Lenin. Undoubtedly this is partly the required acknowledgement to one of the founders of the…
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