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The Pursuit of Objectivity in Science and Public Life
"A foundational work on historical and social studies of quantification"--...
The Scientific Life in a Statistical Age
Karl Pearson, founder of modern statistics, came to this field by way of passionate early studies of philosophy and cultural history as well as ether ...
Emphasizing the debt of science to nonspecialist intellectuals, Theodore Porter describes in detail the nineteenth-century background that produced th...
An essential work on the origins of statistics The Rise of Statistical Thinking, 1820–1900 explores the history of statistics from the field's origi...
The Unknown History of Human Heredity
The untold story of how hereditary data in mental hospitals gave rise to the science of human heredity In the early 1800s, a century before there was ...
Quantification, Democracy, and the Birth of National Statistics
How new techniques of quantification shaped the New Deal and American democracy. When the Great Depression struck, the US government lacked tools to a...