Limits of the Numerical : The Abuses and Uses of Quantification /

This collection examines the uses of quantification in climate science, higher education, and health. Numbers are both controlling and fragile. They drive public policy, figuring into everything from college rankings to vaccine efficacy rates. At the same time, they are frequent objects of obfuscati...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Alexandrova, Anna (Contribuidor, Editor ), Badano, Gabriele (Contribuidor), Chatterjee, Elizabeth (Contribuidor), John, Stephen (Contribuidor, Editor ), Junghans, Trenholme (Contribuidor), Lusk, Greg (Contribuidor), Mandell, Laura (Contribuidor), Mehta, Aashish (Contribuidor), Newfield, Christopher (Contribuidor, Editor ), Singh, Ramandeep (Contribuidor), Steffen, Heather (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2022]
Temas:
Climatology > Research > Case studies.
Education, Higher > Research > Case studies.
Health > Research > Case studies.
Quantitative research > Case studies.
Quantitative research > Social aspects.
Quantitative research.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
quantitative, qualitative, fragility of the numerical, authority, policy, metrics, expertise, academic scholarship, social sciences, humanities.
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