UID:
almahu_9949494776002882
Format:
1 online resource (317 pages).
ISBN:
9780226817163
Series Statement:
Chicago scholarship online
Content:
Examines the uses of quantification in climate science, higher education, and health. Numbers are both controlling and fragile. They drive public policy, figuring into everything from college rankings to vaccine efficacy rates. At the same time, they are frequent objects of obfuscation, manipulation, or outright denial. This timely collection by a diverse group of humanists and social scientists challenges undue reverence or skepticism toward quantification and offers new ideas about how to harmonize quantitative with qualitative forms of knowledge.
Note:
Also issued in print: 2022.
Additional Edition:
Print version : ISBN 9780226817132
Language:
English
URL:
Chicago scholarship online
