The history of statistics - as a mode of political and economic power, not as a kind of mathematics - is currently a minor interest of mine (and perhaps a larger one in the future). Thus, I was engrossed by this short article about the Allies' ingenious use of statistics to overcome their incomplete knowledge of the number of tanks the Germans were producing at the height of World War II.
Blowing & Drifting
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