مؤلف القسم:Danielle J. Navarro and David R. Foxcroft

لماذا نتعلم الإحصاء؟

“Thou shalt not answer questionnaires

Or quizzes upon World Affairs,

Nor with compliance

Take any test. Thou shalt not sit

مع الإحصائيين وعدم الالتزام

علم الاجتماع"

—W.H. Auden[1]

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The quote comes from Auden’s 1946 poem Under Which Lyre: A Reactionary Tract for the Times, delivered as part of a commencement address at Harvard University. The history of the poem is kind of interesting.