Otis Dudley Duncan, 82, Revealer of Social Trends, Dies
NY Times
Otis Dudley Duncan, a social scientist who used statistical tools and models to show sociological trends and later helped determine that education played a greater role than social status in determining a boy’s future success, died on Nov. 16 in a hospice in Santa Barbara, Calif. He was 82. The cause was prostate cancer, said his daughter, Eleanor Duncan Armstrong of State College, Pa.
