NOTES◆ 285- 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). - See Tukey, Exploratory Data Analysis, pp. 221–2.
- 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
- Howard S. Becker, Writing for Social Scientists(Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 1986), p. 122. - Alexis de Tocqueville, quoted in J. P. Mayer, Prophet of the Mass Age
(London: Dent, 1939), p. 123. - Blaise Pascal, Pensées(London: Dent, 1932), p. 7, Thought number 19.
- 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: http://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 New York Herald Tribune, 28 June 1959. The
architect Robert Venturi famously retorted: ‘Less is a bore.’ - Boscoe Pertwee, quoted in Umberto Eco, Kant and the Platypus:
Essays on Language and Cognition(London: Verso, 1997), translated
by Alastair McEwan, p. 2. - Monty Python. The full script can be found at: http://www.ai.mit.edu/
people/paulfitz/spanish/script.html
Chapter 9 Publishing your research
- AT&T poster advertisement, autumn 2000. The company is an
American phone giant. - Quoted in G. G. Neil Wright, Teach Yourself to Study(London:
English Universities Press, 1945), p. 96.