Trust in Numbers : : The Pursuit of Objectivity in Science and Public Life / / Theodore M. Porter.
A foundational work on historical and social studies of quantification 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...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020] ©1995 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (344 p.) |
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