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In the Asimov excerpt the study of psychohistory highlights the fact that data is more than just numbers. The chapter starts off as using psychohistory as a “nonmathematical” (yet sorta mathematical) concept that deals with human conglomerates to fix social and economic issues. The readings reflect the fact that to arrive to fixing these social and economic issues, there isn’t only one data set or statistic that will answer those questions. The foreword by Fogel on Labor Productivity, too, emphasizes that the macroeconomic question could not be answered without looking at the microeconomic relations between laborers and their careers. Although microeconomics focuses on the small scale interpersonal economics, it heavily contributed to the macroeconomic hypothesis in the study. Both these readings show that the social issues we try to solve are never answered through one set of mathematical data, but rather through the relations and trends between multiple data sets recorded by our society.