statisticism
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statisticism (uncountable)
- Excessive reliance on statistics.
- 2011, Ieva Zake, Michael DeCesare, New Directions in Sociology, page 151:
- Perhaps more troubling, though, is that even those sociologists who claim to be sensitive to the dangers of statisticism fall victim to it anyway.