Limits of the Numerical
Limits of the Numerical This collection examines the uses of quantification in climate science, higher education, and health.Numbers are both controlling and fragile. At the same time, they are…
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Limits of the Numerical
This collection examines the uses of quantification in climate science, higher education, and health.Numbers are both controlling and fragile. At the same time, they are frequent objects of obfuscation, manipulation, or outright denial. They drive public policy, figuring into everything from college rankings to vaccine efficacy rates.
This volume shows the many ways that qualitative and quantitative approaches can productively interact-how the limits of the 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.Limits of the Numerical focuses on quantification in several contexts: climate change; university teaching and research; and health, medicine, and well-being more broadly.
Limits of the Numerical
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