Paper Knowledge and Statistical Precision
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3373856 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christine Von Oertzen (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 114 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 380-386 |
| Publication date | 2023-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Isis (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-1753 • E-ISSN: 1545-6994 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/724775 |
| OpenAlex | W4376870366 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 4 |
This essay explores the material imperatives of nineteenth-century statistical ambition, at a time when the nature of paper itself underwent rapid change. It expands the concept of paper technologies to include knowledge about the materials themselves, as well as the infrastructures, techniques, and agreements that made it possible for the right kind of paper to be made available for particular purposes. Taking the production of the forms for the Prussian census as a case in point, it argues that the enumeration effort of Prussian census statisticians went far beyond designing a form, collecting information, noting and compiling figures, or creating tables. Paper knowledge to define and control the material substance of the forms mattered as much as political impetus and statistical methods in getting the census right
Census · Control (management · Data science · Economics · Enumeration · Epistemology · Point (geometry · Political science · Politics · Production (economics · Sociology · Artificial Intelligence · Census and Population Estimation · Computer Science · Data Analysis and Archiving · Law · Mathematics · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |