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James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow
(20 Jul 1820 - 27 Feb 1867)
American statistician and editor whose Statistical View of the United States is highly regarded as a pioneering publication in economic statistics.
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Science Quotes by James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow (1 quote)
Statistics are far from being the barren array of figures ingeniously and laboriously combined into columns and tables, which many persons are apt to suppose them. They constitute rather the ledger of a nation, in which, like the merchant in his books, the citizen can read, at one view, all of the results of a year or of a period of years, as compared with other periods, and deduce the profit or the loss which has been made, in morals, education, wealth or power.
— James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow
Statistical View of the United States: A Compendium of the Seventh Census (1854), 9.
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- 20 Jul - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of De Bow's birth.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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