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He's wrong, that's not correct. In fact it comes from "state", statism is a term referring to the actions of a highly centralised government who handle economic
by chris_wot 10y ago
He's wrong, that's not correct. In fact it comes from "state", statism is a term referring to the actions of a highly centralised government who handle economic planning and controls.
"Statism" is a term that has been around since the 1850s, but "statistics" is a term coined by Gottfried Aschenwall in the late 1770s.
- apathy 10y agoWell, I didn't claim to be a trained historian, which is probably the correct training for this type of work. Based on your temporal evidence, I must concede the point. However, I did not actually pull this straight out of my ass: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/statist http://www.thefreedictionary.com/statist Thanks for the history lesson (seriously). I learned from it.