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Svein Hammer & Heidi Mork Lomell
Mutual Construction of Statistics and Society [EPUB ebook]

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What we choose to count, what we choose not to count, who does the counting, and the categories and values we choose to apply when counting, matter. This volume addresses why and how students and scholars must become more aware of the power and the limitations of statistics.

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Idioma Inglés ● Formato EPUB ● ISBN 9780203846612 ● Editor Svein Hammer & Heidi Mork Lomell ● Editorial Taylor & Francis ● Publicado 2010 ● Descargable 6 veces ● Divisa EUR ● ID 2296374 ● Protección de copia Adobe DRM

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