{"pk":3590,"title":"The Case Against Statistics-as-Methods: Confessions of a Born-Again Planmaker","subtitle":null,"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.","language":"en","license":null,"keywords":[],"section":"Articles","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1sd8r3dk","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"John","middle_name":"","last_name":"Landis","name_suffix":"","institution":"","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2012-07-31T09:54:40-07:00","date_accepted":"2012-07-31T09:54:40-07:00","date_published":"1988-07-31T00:00:00-07:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/ucb_crp_bpj/article/3590/galley/2347/download/"}]}