The Tyranny of  Numbers
Subtitle: Mismeasurement & Misrule
Publisher: AEI Press
Published: May 25, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 100
ISBN-13: 9780844737645
Subjects: Central government policies; Social research & statistics; Sociology; Research; Business/Economics; Statistical methods; General; Political Science / General; Policy sciences; Social policy; Social sciences; Statistics
First sentence: Most of us probably regard the continuous collection of official statistics by governments nowadays as a dull but essentially harmless activity.