The Uses and Misuses of Data and Models: The Mathematization of the Human Sciences
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0761909222
ISBN 13
9780761909224
Category
EIPE
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Publication Year
1998
Publisher
Pages
224
Description
Undeniably, the amount of "information" in our culture has increased by leaps and bounds. At the same time, discussion of values, norms and purpose is often missing from the discourse of social research - especially by those who work within the positivist framework. The authors of this book develop principles to guide the use of data and models in the human sciences. Writing as scholars who are at home with empirical and mathematical social science, yet taking seriously the critiques of this heritage, they propose ways of developing norms without becoming subjective. - from Amzon
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