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With statisticians nor commit

A social science”

—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.