Archive: September 18th, 2010

A week of statistics

There’s a fascination with statistics here.  I know that in the West we also have a fascination with numbers, but it seems to be taken to extreme here.   I suppose it is a consequence of the culture of “the plan” which was so prevalent in Soviet times.  Everything was done to make sure that you [...]

Saturday, September 18th, 2010 at 16:40 2 comments. »