Limits of the numerical : the abuses and uses of quantification /

Limits of the numerical : the abuses and uses of quantification /

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Imprint:	Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2022. ©2022
Description:	317 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Quantitative research. Quantitative research -- Case studies. Quantitative research -- Social aspects. Education, Higher -- Research -- Case studies. Health -- Research -- Case studies. Climatology -- Research -- Case studies.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12747002

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Other authors / contributors:	Newfield, Christopher, editor. Alexandrova, Anna, 1977- editor. John, Stephen, editor.
ISBN:	9780226817132 022681713X 9780226817156 0226817156 9780226817163
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"This timely collection by a diverse group of humanists challenges undue reverence or skepticism toward quantification and shows how it can be a force for good in our social lives despite its many abuses. The book focuses on quantification in climate, higher education, and health: the role of numerical estimates and targets in explaining and planning for climate change; the quantification of outcomes in teaching and research; and numbers representing health, the effectiveness of medical interventions, and well-being more broadly. One might assume that quantification would be a force for good in climate science, a force for bad in higher education, and a mixed bag in healthcare contexts. The authors complicate those narratives, uncovering, for example, epistemic problems with some core numbers in climate science. But their theme is less the problems revealed by case studies than the methodological issues common to them all. Only by stepping outside quantitative frameworks, they argue, can one appreciate what those frameworks do, how they do it, and whether they do it badly or well"--

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