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Trace the origin and progress of Quantitative Revolution in Geography and bring out its merits and demerits.

  • UPSC 2016
  • Perspectives in Human Geography

The Quantitative Revolution (QR) was the systematic replacement of literary, descriptive, region-bound geography by the language of mathematics and statistics — measurement, sampling, hypothesis-testing and model-building — concentrated between the early 1950s and the late 1960s.

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  • ORIGIN I — Exhaustion of the Idiographic Regional Paradigm and a Crisis of Credibility
  • ORIGIN II — Schaefer's 1953 Manifesto: Uniqueness Is No Excuse
  • ORIGIN III — Enabling Currents: Neighbouring Sciences, Positivism and the Computer
  • PROGRESS I — The Staged Advance: From Descriptive Statistics to Spatial Theory
  • PROGRESS II — The Institutional Hearths and Their Specialisms
  • Iowa and Wisconsin — the statistical bridgehead
  • …and 7 more sections, with a conclusion

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