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Educational Research - the Ethics and Aesthetics of Statistics
Smeyers, Paul. Ed(S): Depaepe, Marc
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Description for Educational Research - the Ethics and Aesthetics of Statistics
Hardback. The book explores factors that have made educational researchers dependent on statistics, and examines their use in such areas as the maltreatment of children, European citizenship, well-being and happiness, illegal migrants, and university expansion. Editor(s): Depaepe, Marc. Series: Educational Research. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JNA; JNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 167 x 20. Weight in Grams: 480.
Statistics are everywhere. Their power and their undoubted efficacy in many areas have given rise to faith in measurement and metrics. More of them will tell us all that we need to know. Their use carries with it a number of presuppositions: that reality can be satisfactorily represented and that it can be controlled or the risks managed. The papers in this book interpret the ethics and aesthetics of statistics in terms of representation, visualisation and accessibility, focus on the appeal of ‘simplicity’, of technical languages, numbers, diagrams and pictures, and pay attention to their connection with action plans. ... Read more
Statistics are everywhere. Their power and their undoubted efficacy in many areas have given rise to faith in measurement and metrics. More of them will tell us all that we need to know. Their use carries with it a number of presuppositions: that reality can be satisfactorily represented and that it can be controlled or the risks managed. The papers in this book interpret the ethics and aesthetics of statistics in terms of representation, visualisation and accessibility, focus on the appeal of ‘simplicity’, of technical languages, numbers, diagrams and pictures, and pay attention to their connection with action plans. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Series
Educational Research
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9789048198726
SKU
V9789048198726
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99-15
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