Scientism and Values.pdf - Ludwig von Mises Institute

xvi Introduction
edited by Mary Sennholz (Princeton: D. Van Nostrand Company, 1956),
p. 165.
5. 1. Viner, The Long View and the Short (1958), pp. 42 f., reprinted from
an article in American Economic Review) Supplement) XVIII (March,
1928).
6. See) for instance, William C. Boyd, "Has Statistics Retarded the Progress
of Physical Anthropology?" American Journal of Physical Anthropology)
XVI, No.4 (December, 1958), 483: H ••• the use of statistical methods in
physical anthropology, although no doubt useful ... has in the past
retarded the progress of the discipline, by leading to a false feeling of
security in the uncritical accumulation of great masses of measurements
and by discouraging attempts at physiological and genetic analysis of
human traits." If this can be said about physical anthropology, should
we not heed such warning even more for the social and cultural dimensions
of man?