'Why statistics tend not only to describe the world but to change it'. Essay 
review of: Desrosières, Alain: The politics of large numbers : a history of 
statistical reasoning. Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.] : Harvard Univ. Press 1998

Daston, Lorraine

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'Why statistics tend not only to describe the world but to change it'. Essay review of: Desrosières, Alain: The politics of large numbers : a history of statistical reasoning. Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.] : Harvard Univ. Press 1998

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Daston, Lorraine
Department Ideals and Practices of Rationality, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Max Planck Society;

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Daston, L. (2000). 'Why statistics tend not only to describe the world but to change it'. Essay review of: Desrosières, Alain: The politics of large numbers: a history of statistical reasoning. Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.]: Harvard Univ. Press 1998. London Review of Books, 22(8), 35-36.

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