Trust in Numbers: The Pursuit of Objectivity in Science and Public Life
Author
Theodore Porter
Language
English
Subjects
Sociology of quantification
Politics History of Statistics
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Publication date
1995
Pages
328
ISBN
978-0691029085
Trust in numbers: the pursuit of objectivity in science and public life is a book by Theodore Porter, published in 1995 by Princeton University Press,[1] that proposes that quantification in public life is driven by bureaucratic necessities to obtain legitimacy through objectivity.
^Porter, T. M. (1995). Trust in Numbers: The Pursuit of Objectivity in Science and Public Life, Princeton University Press.
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