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Trust in Numbers: The Pursuit of Objectivity in Science and Public Life
AuthorTheodore Porter
LanguageEnglish
SubjectsSociology of quantification
Politics
History of Statistics
PublisherPrinceton University Press
Publication date
1995
Pages328
ISBN978-0691029085

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.

  1. ^ Porter, T. M. (1995). Trust in Numbers: The Pursuit of Objectivity in Science and Public Life, Princeton University Press.

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