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Trust in Numbers

Autor Theodore M Porter
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 18 aug 2020
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 research on human societies, and examines why the natural sciences are highly quantitative in the first place. Theodore Porter argues that a better understanding of the attractions of quantification in business, government, and social research brings a fresh perspective to its role in psychology, physics, and medicine. Quantitative rigor is not inherent in science but arises from political and social pressures, and objectivity derives its impetus from cultural contexts. In a new preface, the author sheds light on the current infatuation with quantitative methods, particularly at the intersection of science and bureaucracy.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780691208411
ISBN-10: 0691208417
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 156 x 236 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.55 kg
Ediția:Nouă
Editura: Princeton University Press

Notă biografică

Theodore M. Porter is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. His books include The Rise of Statistical Thinking and Genetics in the Madhouse (both Princeton).