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Trust in numbers : the pursuit of objectivity in science and public life /
What accounts for the prestige of quantitative methods? The usual answer is that quantification is desirable in social investigation as a result of its successes in science. Trust in Numbers questions whether such success in the study of stars, molecules, or cells should be an attractive model for r...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
2020.
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| Edition: | New edition. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Preface to the new edition
- Preface
- Introduction: Cultures of objectivity
- Power in numbers: A world of artifice ; How social numbers are made valid ; Economic measurement and the values of science ; The political philosophy of quantification
- Technologies of trust: Experts against objectivity : accountants and actuaries ; French State engineers and the ambiguities of technocracy ; U.S. Army Engineers and the rise of cost-benefit analysis
- Political and scientific communities: Objectivity and the politics of disciplines ; Is science made by communities?