Trust in Numbers: The Pursuit of Objectivity in Science and Public Life by Theodore M. Porter

Trust in Numbers: The Pursuit of Objectivity in Science and Public Life

Theodore M. Porter

344 pages • first pub 1995 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative medium-paced
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A foundational work on historical and social studies of quantificationWhat 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. Tru...

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