Equally obvious, evening college students taking one two hour course each are in no meaningful way equivalent to day students, each with a sixteen hour load. The moral is: Not everything that can be counted counts. Counting sounds easy until we actually attempt it, and then we quickly discover that often we cannot recognize what we ought to count. Numbers are no substitute for clear definitions, and not everything that can be counted counts.
In Cameron combined the two phrases and used the resulting quotation in his textbook on sociology. This citation was given at the beginning of this post:. These are best summarized in two propositions which have been neatly articulated by Dr. He cited the article just mentioned; thus, he also credited Stephen Ross: 8.
Research is supposed to train the mind into channels of scientific and therefore respectable thought, but does not this kind of research sometimes encourage the erroneous belief that only that which can be measured is worthy of serious attention? Stephen Ross. In the adage appeared in the British Medical Journal again. But this time the words were attached to Lord Platt who used them during a speech: 9. The earliest citation QI could find that associates Albert Einstein with the saying was dated But this work did not claim that Einstein was responsible for coining the expression.
Yet, the text also claimed that Einstein wrote it on his blackboard: Currently, the first appearance known to QI for this adage is dated which was several years after the death of Einstein.
Cameron was not forgotten, and in a sociology textbook attributed the saying to him and cited the book that was mentioned at the start of this post: In conclusion, the attachment of this quotation to Einstein is tenuous. There is no evidence that he crafted it, and the evidence that he wrote it on a blackboard is weak. QI believes that the preponderance of currently available information indicates that William Bruce Cameron combined two phrases to create the adage.
He also seems to have coined at least one of the two phrases that were combined. In addition, current evidence suggests that the full two-part adage was created after the death of Einstein. Update history: On September 5, the article was rewritten. The quotation was split into two phrases for analysis and some additional citations were presented for these phrases.
On April 13, boldface text was added. On December 28, the citation was added to the article. However, consumer spending is a gentle elephant: when viewed over time, it does not jump around too much. National income is the accumulated value of total goods and services produced by a country within a financial year. Income method calculates national income based on the flow of factor revenues.
There are four factors associated with every production activity; these are land, labour, capital and entrepreneurship. The national income of a country can be measured by three alternative methods: i Product Method ii Income Method, and iii Expenditure Method.
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I will try to rectify the same. Examples put up by you were excellent. Interesting article except…the quote is cited incorrectly and thus the theme needs to be reconsidered.
I guess there is some controversy about the source. I will verify once. Thanks for pointing out. And Thankyou for taking out time to read my article.
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