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Trust in numbers : the pursuit of objectivity in science and public life /
This investigation of the overwhelming appeal of quantification in the modern world discusses the development of cultural meanings of objectivity over two centuries. How are we to account for the current prestige and power of quantitative methods? The usual answer is that quantification is seen as d...
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Princeton, N.J. :
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©1995.
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Trust in numbers : |b the pursuit of objectivity in science and public life / |c Theodore M. Porter. |
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-301) and index. | ||
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| 505 | 0 | |a pt. I Power in Numbers -- Ch. 1 A World of Artifice -- Ch. 2 How Social Numbers Are Made Valid -- Ch. 3 Economic Measurement and the Values of Science -- Ch. 4 The Political Philosophy of Quantification -- pt. II Technologies of Trust -- Ch. 5 Experts against Objectivity: Accountants and Actuaries -- Ch. 6 French State Engineers and the Ambiguities of Technocracy -- Ch. 7 U.S. Army Engineers and the Rise of Cost-Benefit Analysis -- pt. III Political and Scientific Communities -- Ch. 8 Objectivity and the Politics of Disciplines -- Ch. 9 Is Science Made by Communities? | |
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| 520 | |a This investigation of the overwhelming appeal of quantification in the modern world discusses the development of cultural meanings of objectivity over two centuries. How are we to account for the current prestige and power of quantitative methods? The usual answer is that quantification is seen as desirable in social and economic investigation as a result of its successes in the study of nature. Theodore Porter is not content with this. Why should the kind of success achieved in the study of stars, molecules, or cells be an attractive model for research on human societies? he asks. And, ind. | ||
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