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Strength under pressure/A world without statistics
Author(s) -
Hartman Katherine,
Habermann Hermann,
HarrisKojetin Brian,
Jones Christa,
Louis Tom,
Gelman Andrew
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
significance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1740-9713
pISSN - 1740-9705
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2014.00769.x
Subject(s) - face (sociological concept) , history , art history , sociology , social science
Official statisticians need help to deal with the ethical dilemmas they face, say Katherine Hartman, Hermann Habermann, Brian Harris‐Kojetin, Christa Jones and Tom Louis . How would science, society and technology have evolved if we did not have statistics? Andrew Gelman imagines what might have been.