Educational Research - the Ethics and Aesthetics of Statistics

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Smeyers, Paul (Editor), Depaepe, Marc (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Series: Educational Research ; 5
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Educational policy.; ducation and state.; Education > Philosophy.; Social Sciences.; Methodology of the Social Sciences.; Educational Philosophy.; Educational Policy and Politics.

Statistics are everywhere. Their power and their undoubted efficacy in many areas have given rise to faith in measurement and metrics. More of them will tell us all that we need to know. Their use carries with it a number of presuppositions: that reality can be satisfactorily represented and that it...