Trust in Numbers
The Pursuit of Objectivity in Science and Public Life
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2993245 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kevin D Haggerty (0000-0003-3864-6811), Kevin Haggerty, Theodore Porter |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 279 |
| Publication date | 1997-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | Trust in Numbers: The Pursuit of Objectivity in Science and Public Life, Theodore M Porter, 1995 |
| Venue | The Canadian Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0318-6431 • E-ISSN: 1710-1123 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3341760 |
| OpenAlex | W4298124538 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
Epistemology · Political science · Public life · Sociology · Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration · Law · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science
Social movement and economic statistics in interwar Poland
At the Limits of Cure
Learning Like a State
Legitimacy in the making
Scaling Techno-Optimistic Visions
Post-truth and the Search for Objectivity
The Tyranny of Numbers
Measures of future health, from the nonhuman to the planetary
Trust/distrust in Multi-disciplinary Collaboration
Data Surrogates as Hosts
The Factish in the Field
Steered or Guided by Numbers
A measure of ‘environmental happiness’
Unfolding Algorithms
Calculating Therapeutic Compliance
Developing AI for Weather Prediction
Socio-psychedelic imaginaries
Verstrickt in der Rhetorik der Technologie-, Daten- und Medienunternehmen? Zu Problematiken im Umgang mit nicht-wissenschaftlichen Nutzungsdaten
Facts of (Financial) Life
Rhetorical Implications of Contact Tracing Mobile Applications
From Europe’s past to the Middle East’s future
Calculative Practices in International Environmental Governance
Universal Rules and Discretionary Situations
Acting numbers
Market making and the (re)production of knowledge in public universities
Towards a Sociology of Suspicion
Constitutional Review and Dissenting Opinions in Nondemocracies
Behind the Scene of Soviet Runway Fashion
The Dynamics of Dissertation Industry in Russia, 2005–2015. Did New Institutional Templates Change Academic Behavior
Databases, Scaling Practices, and the Globalization of Biodiversity
Evaluación de la transparencia en el periodismo de datos de referencia
Censos y etnicidad en España. Historia de una ausencia
Irrodl Volume 4, Number 2
Algorithmic Fetishism
The politics of public data and numbers in activism
Beyond the scorecard diplomacy
The national accounting paradox
International comparisons in science studies
Journal list fetishism and the ‘sign of 4’ in the ABS guide
Beyond the Nuclear Epicenter
Coexistence of Plants and Coexistence of Farmers
Through the looking-glass
Unsustainable measures? Assessing global competence in Pisa 2018
"Examining "The Police
Diffractive Possibilities
White, democratic, technocratic
The paper technology of confinement
Digitale Scorings als Statusmarker. Eine ungleichheitssoziologische Annäherung
Kwantyfikacja rzeczywistoĹci. O nieznoĹnym imperatywie policzalnoĹci wszystkiego
Contested Numbers
Crisis in 'a normal bad year
In the shadow of benchmarks. Normative and ontological issues in the governance of land
Estimated truths
Democracy underwater
Rethinking the 'crisis of expertise
The Social Construction of Official Statistics
Counting the countless
Three Aspects of Data Worlds
Eliminating Human Agency
Making Predictions
Please Show You're Working
La guérison en cancérologie
A classe média no mundo do neoliberalismo
Values as heuristics
Addictive motivational scaffolds and the structure of social media
A Tool for Reflecting on Questionable Numbers in Society
Absent Balloons? How a Global Germany Contributed to a European Physics of the Atmosphere
Experimentando con la tierra. Geotermia, no-conocimiento y transiciones energéticas como experimentos a la intemperie
Why do schools continue to use between-class ability grouping
Measuring the Nonexistent
Performing Public Good
The Impact of Impact
Das Unbehagen an der Ordinalisierung
Politicizing the Environment
From Value to Valuation
Government Risk Regulation
Lineages and Advancements in Material Culture Studies
Peopled By Data: Statistical Knowledge Practices, Population-Making, and the State
Data, Knowledge Practices, and Naturecultural Worlds: Vehicle Emissions in the Anthropocene
Data Visualization in Society
Die Vermessung der Kunstwelt
Die Lehren des Luftkriegs
Routine failure in Macedonia
Writing failure
Archaeological Pitfalls of Storage
Expert Ignorance
Governing Privacy in Knowledge Commons
Five ways to ensure that models serve society
Colonial Numbers
Gods in the Time of Automobility
Inventing Purity in the Atlantic Sugar World, 1860–1930
The Rise of the Social Sciences and the Formation of Modernity
Can the Science of Well-Being Be Objective
What is algorithmic governance
A novel, human-in-the-loop computational grounded theory framework for big social data
Sexual Datafication
| Highly cited | No |
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