Format:
1 Online-Ressource (324 Seiten)
ISBN:
9780226817163
Content:
Introduction : the changing fates of the numerical /Christopher Newfield, Anna Alexandrova, Stephen John --Expert sources of the revolt againt experts.Numbers without experts : the populist politics of quantification /Elizabeth Chatterjee --The role of the numerical in the decline of expertise /Christopher Newfield --Can narrative fix numbers?Audit narratives : making higher education manageable in learning assessment discourse /Heather Steffen --The limits of "The limits of the numerical" : rare diseases and the seductions of qualification /Trenholme Junghans --Reading numbers : literature, case histories, and quantitative analysis /Laura Mandell --When bad numbers have good social effects.Why five fruit and veg a day? Communicating, deceiving, and manipulating with numbers /Stephen John --Are numbers really as bad as they seem? A political-philosophy perspective /Gabriele Badano --The uses of the numerical for qualitative ends.When well-being becomes a number /Anna Alexandrova and Ramandeep Singh --Aligning social goals and scientific numbers : an ethical-epistemic analysis of extreme weather attribution /Greg Lusk --The purposes and provisioning of higher education : can economics and humanities perspectives be reconciled? /Aashish Mehta and Christopher Newfield.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226817132
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226817156
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Limits of the numerical Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2022 ISBN 9780226817132
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226817156
Language:
English
Keywords:
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