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J. Idenburg

Statistica Neerlandica, 1952, vol. 6, issue 4, 273-279

Abstract: Recapitulation. The general views, held in common by several of the previous nine speakers on the sixth Statistical Day of the Netherlands Statistical Society, have been summarized. The (implicit) assumptions, common to all predictions, whether of the qualitative (non‐measuring) or of the quantitative (measuring) kind, are regularity and causal connection between phenomena. Moreover, all predictions are subject to certain conditions, which, for the “measuring” ones, have to be put into quantitative terms. In all domains of social life the measuring rod is making headway into realms in which it did not enter previously, and prediction is no exception to the rule. Nevertheless, this process cannot proceed beyond certain fundamental limits, guarding perhaps the most precious elements of life. In the meantime we have to further prediction in the indicated direction, not in the least because of its use in planning, the active counterpart of prediction. May it be to the benefit of mankind.

Date: 1952
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