It is because social relations are so frequently and so inevitably correlated with spatial relations; because physical distances so frequently are, or seem to be, the indexes of social distance, that statistics have any significance whatever for sociology. And this is true, finally, because it is only as social and psychical facts can be reduced to, and correlated with, spatial facts that they can be measured at all. 1
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John Everitt (1974) studied this question.