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

ISBN-13: 9780691208411 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 344 str.

Theodore M. Porter

Opis

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. Trust in Numbers questions whether such success in the study of stars, molecules, or cells should be a