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7. My favourite sources are now dated but still useful works, such as
Catherine Marsh,
Exploring Data: An Introduction to Data Analysis for
Social Scientists
(Cambridge: Polity, 1988); Ehrenberg,
A Primer in
Data Reduction
; B. H. Erickson and T. A. Nozanchuk,
Understanding
Data: An Introduction to Exploratory and Confirmatory Data Analysis
for Students in the Social Sciences
(Milton Keynes:
Open University
Press, 1979); John W. Tukey,
Exploratory Data Analysis
(Reading, MA:
Addison-Wesley, 1977); and Frederick Mosteller and John W. Tukey,
Data Analysis and Regression: A Second Course in Statistics
(Reading,
MA: Addison-Wesley, 1977).
8. See Tukey,
Exploratory Data Analysis
, pp. 221–2.
9. Umberto Eco,
Kant and the Platypus: Essays on Language and Cognition
(London: Verso, 1997), translated by Alastair McEwan, p. 83.
Chapter 8
The end-game:
finishing your
doctorate
1. Howard S. Becker,
Writing for Social Scientists
(Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 1986), p. 122.
2. Alexis de Tocqueville, quoted in J. P. Mayer,
Prophet of the Mass Age
(London: Dent, 1939), p. 123.
3. Blaise Pascal,
Pensées
(London: Dent, 1932), p. 7, Thought number 19.
4. Robert Browning, from his poem ‘Andrea del Sarto (called “The
Faultless Poet”)’, line 78: ‘Well, less is more Lucrezi, I am judged’.
For
the complete poem, see: www.libraryutoronto.ca/intel/rp/
poems/browning12.html. The catchphrase ‘less is more’ was picked
up and made famous as a motto of modernist architecture by Mies
van der Rohe, in the
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