The Tyranny of Numbers
Subtitle: Mismeasurement and Misrule (Aei Studies, 528)
Publisher: American Enterprise Institute Press
Published: June 1995
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 327
ISBN-13: 9780844737638
Subjects: Central government policies; Social research & statistics; Sociology; Research; Politics/International Relations; Statistical methods; 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.