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663613Limits of the Numericalhttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/limits-of-the-numerical/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/1284688/df609c53-9b60-46c6-ab01-aeeced5d9aef.jpg?v=638337785091530000418580MXNUniversity of Chicago PressInStock/Ebooks/<p><strong>This collection examines the uses of quantification in climate science, higher education, and health.</strong></p><p>Numbers are both controlling and fragile. They drive public policy, figuring into everything from college rankings to vaccine efficacy rates. At the same time, they are frequent objects of obfuscation, manipulation, or outright denial. 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.</p><p><em>Limits of the Numerical</em> focuses on quantification in several contexts: climate change; university teaching and research; and health, medicine, and well-being more broadly. This volume shows the many ways that qualitative and quantitative approaches can productively interacthow the limits of the numerical can be overcome through equitable partnerships with historical, institutional, and philosophical analysis. The authors show that we can use numbers to hold the powerful to account, but only when those numbers are themselves democratically accountable.</p>...659829Limits of the Numerical418580https://www.gandhi.com.mx/limits-of-the-numerical/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/1284688/df609c53-9b60-46c6-ab01-aeeced5d9aef.jpg?v=638337785091530000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20229780226817163_W3siaWQiOiJiMWYxYjY5NS0zZDgyLTQ3ZTQtYWQyYi03NGY5YTYxYjBlOTciLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjU4MCwiZGlzY291bnQiOjE2Miwic2VsbGluZ1ByaWNlIjo0MTgsImluY2x1ZGVzVGF4Ijp0cnVlLCJwcmljZVR5cGUiOiJXaG9sZXNhbGUiLCJjdXJyZW5jeSI6Ik1YTiIsImZyb20iOiIyMDI1LTA4LTMwVDAzOjAwOjAwWiIsInRvIjoiMjAyNS0wOS0zMFQyMzo1OTo1OVoiLCJyZWdpb24iOiJNWCIsImlzUHJlb3JkZXIiOmZhbHNlfSx7ImlkIjoiY2M1MDgyNzgtMmI5NC00NmQxLWE5NzMtNzlkNThjMzYyNWVhIiwibGlzdFByaWNlIjo1NTksImRpc2NvdW50IjoxNTYsInNlbGxpbmdQcmljZSI6NDAzLCJpbmNsdWRlc1RheCI6dHJ1ZSwicHJpY2VUeXBlIjoiV2hvbGVzYWxlIiwiY3VycmVuY3kiOiJNWE4iLCJmcm9tIjoiMjAyNS0xMC0wMVQwMDowMDowMFoiLCJyZWdpb24iOiJNWCIsImlzUHJlb3JkZXIiOmZhbHNlfV0=9780226817163_<p><strong>This collection examines the uses of quantification in climate science, higher education, and health.</strong></p><p>Numbers are both controlling and fragile. They drive public policy, figuring into everything from college rankings to vaccine efficacy rates. At the same time, they are frequent objects of obfuscation, manipulation, or outright denial. 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.</p><p><em>Limits of the Numerical</em> focuses on quantification in several contexts: climate change; university teaching and research; and health, medicine, and well-being more broadly. This volume shows the many ways that qualitative and quantitative approaches can productively interacthow the limits of the numerical can be overcome through equitable partnerships with historical, institutional, and philosophical analysis. The authors show that we can use numbers to hold the powerful to account, but only when those numbers are themselves democratically accountable.</p>...9780226817163_University of Chicago Presslibro_electonico_b440a1d9-d4fc-3619-9f66-e8ee9fac2f2a_9780226817163;9780226817163_9780226817163InglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/uofchicagopress-epub-bbf365b2-e82d-4040-825b-cbce48cc83b2.epub2022-06-24T00:00:00+00:00University of Chicago Press