| Physical Description |
xvi, 291 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm |
| Note |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Prologue: Of Two Minds -- There's No Such Thing as a Raw Number -- How a Number Comes to Be -- How We Know What a Number Means -- How Numbers Get Their Clout -- How Counting Changes Hearts and Minds -- The Ethics of Counting. |
| Summary |
... Most of us think of counting as a skill so basic that we see numbers as objective, indisputable facts. ... In this playful-yet-probing work, Stone reveals the inescapable link between quantifying and classifying, and explains how counting determines almost every facet of our lives-from how we are evaluated at work to how our political opinions are polled to whether we get into college or even out of prison. ...-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Statistics -- Social aspects.
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Counting -- Social aspects.
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Measurement -- Social aspects.
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Evaluation -- Social aspects.
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