The Case Against Statistics-as-Methods: Confessions of a Born-Again Planmaker

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" The Case Against Statistics-as-Methods: Confessions of a Born-Again Planmaker "
Landis, John

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	928553
Doc. No	:	LA1sd8r3dk
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Landis, John
Title & Author	:	The Case Against Statistics-as-Methods: Confessions of a Born-Again Planmaker [Article]\ Landis, John
Title of Periodical	:	Berkeley Planning Journal
Volume/ Issue Number	:	3/2
Date	:	1988
Abstract	:	I n most planning programs, ''methods'' mean statistics. I n a 1 983 survey of 71 North American planning schools, E.H. Baxter found that statistics, chiefly inferential statistics, formed the core component of first-year planning methods classes in almost all of the planning pro grams surveyed ( 1 983). What explains this popularity? Statistics, I sus pect, has much the same appeal as a succesfs ul political candidate - although exciting to only a few, it is nontheless acceptable to many.