Simon Newton Dexter (S. N. D.) North (1848-1924) was an American statistician. He served as
President of the American Statistical Association in 1910.
In 1914 he became one of the inaugural
Fellow
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In learned or professional societies, it refers to a privileged member who is specially elected in recognition of their work and achievements.
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s of the
American Statistical Association
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.
Earlier he had been Secretary of the National Association of Wool Manufacturers.
North was chosen to head the 12th
census
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in 1900. After
Herman Hollerith's electromechanical
tabulating machine
The tabulating machine was an electromechanical machine designed to assist in summarizing information stored on punched cards. Invented by Herman Hollerith, the machine was developed to help process data for the 1890 U.S. Census. Later model ...
was first used in the 11th census, it allowed North's administration to extend the census method to the field of agriculture and manufacture. Sharing the worries about the influx of immigrants with other upper-class Americans and colleagues of his day, like Francis Walker, North praised Hollerith's tabulator machine as an enabler in "
opingsuccessfully with the problems growing out of the heterogeneous commingling of races" which "has been a powerful influence in the rapid disappearance of the
Puritanical
The Puritans were English Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries who sought to purify the Church of England of Roman Catholic practices, maintaining that the Church of England had not been fully reformed and should become more Protestant. ...
outlook upon life".
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Photo of S.N.D. North, 1910
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Presidents of the American Statistical Association
Fellows of the American Statistical Association
1848 births
1924 deaths