According to Lord Kelvin (1883), ‘[w]hen you can measure what you are speaking about and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of the meagre and unsatisfactory kind’.1 Lord Kelvin was a natural scientist, but today many social scientists would agree that quantitative approaches are central to scientific progress. Legal researchers have joined in relatively late, but there is now also a growing use of quantitative studies in law.
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