Oleg Komlik — The Sociology of Quantification: Seeing like Numbers

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Short and important.Economic Sociology and Political EconomyThe Sociology of Quantification: Seeing like Numbers Oleg Komlik | founder and editor-in-chief of the ES/PE, Chairman of the Junior Sociologists Network at the International Sociological Association, a PhD Candidate in Economic Sociology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Ben-Gurion University, and a Lecturer in the School of Behavioral Sciences at the College of Management Academic StudiesSee alsoStatistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social ScienceRevisiting “Is the scientific paper a fraud?” Andrew Gelman | Professor of Statistics and Political Science and Director of the Applied Statistics Center, Columbia University

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Mike Norman considers the following as important: critical thinking, methodology, quantification, sociology

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