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Trust in numbers: The pursuit of objectivity in science and public life

✍ Scribed by J. Rosser Matthews

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1996
Tongue
English
Weight
342 KB
Volume
32
Category
Article
ISSN
0022-5061

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✦ Synopsis

How are we to account for the prestige and power of quantitative methods in the modern world?" (viii). This is the question that Theodore M. Porter proposes to answer in his fascinating new book on the role of quantification in myriad bureaucratic and scientific contexts. Most accounts of quantification have first emphasized its power in the developed

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