Have We Gone Too Far?

Abstract

T HE question of whether we have gone too far in mathematical and statistical training for agricultural economists has been the object of much controversy and comment. Let us sample some of the comments. Paarlberg at the 1963 AFEA meeting said, have become so preoccupied with quantification that we quantify things which could better be handled qualitatively and we omit important factors from consideration just because they can't be quantified.... We forget that no method can produce rational results from erroneous data and that a system of data processing can answer only the questions that we are intelligent enough to ask of it.'

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