ABSTRACT
Many of the terms of the old political science walked the plank and were cast overboard; and since recourse was had to a systematic nomenclature such as Roget's Thesaurus. The justification of this piracy lies in the booty, and this chapter shows how the conceptions and terms enable important generalizations made by statistical summarizations to be combined with non-statistical interpretation and reasoning. The chapter reviews the need for measures of distribution and time-tendency in political science, and discusses the statistical association or correlation of political characters as forming, when combined with psychological interpretation, the chief basis for generalizations and laws of political science. Taking leave of measured political activities correlated and interpreted as caused by social circumstances we may, finally, turn to political activities correlated as hypothetical causes of social circumstances. Measurable sociological results of political activities to which importance is publicly attached are: Statistics of Health and Safety.
