ABSTRACT
Popular thought, impelled by practical needs and by its proverbial incapacity to suspend judgment, resorts in such cases to what is known as the Method of Simple Enumeration. Scientific investigation is always concerned with the discovery of the relationship between two or more attributes or variables. In its most fruitful applications the results of the Statistical Method are in some ways very like those of the Method of Agreement and the Method of Concomitant Variations, although the processes are different in some respects. In any case, the associations or correlations established by the Statistical Method, and the concomitant variations shown by the Method of Concomitant Variations, exhibit analogous types. Through exact descriptions, by means of accurate counting and measuring, classifying and tabulating, the phenomena under investigation assume an orderliness which renders them easier to grasp, and such orderliness clearly paves the way for discoveries and explanations.
