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  title info:
    title: Ethnostatistics
  name:
    name part: Gephart, Robert P.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Saylors, Rohny
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Atkinson, Paul
    name part: 1947-
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Delamont, Sara
    name part: 1947-
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Cernat, Alexandru
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Sakshaug, Joseph W.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Williams, Richard A.
    name part: active 2020
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  abstract: Ethnostatistics is concerned with understanding how statistics are actually constructed and used by social scientists and professionals. While the conventional field of statistics emphasizes formal rules and rational methods for creating reliable and valid counts and measures of social phenomena, ethnostatistics addresses how interpretive work and informal practices that are needed to produce statistics interact with formal, technical knowledge to shape statistical outcomes. The goal is to develop a social theory of measurement that explains the construction, use, and meaning of statistics in scientific and professional life. Ethnostatistics thus provides important insights into essential but neglected features of statistics production and use. It addresses how practical knowledge, informal practices, and research settings influence the construction of statistics; it provides new tools to help researchers determine the appropriateness of the assumptions made in using statistics; and it reveals how quantitative research uses literary practices to present and interpret numbers for rhetorical purposes. Three levels of ethnostatistics are explored. Level 1, producing statistics, uses ethnographies to describe how qualitative observations are undertaken and transformed into numerals and measures. Level 2, statistics at work, uses computer simulations to assess implicit assumptions and informal practices in measurement. Level 3, the rhetoric of statistics, explores how statistics are used for persuasive purposes in scientific texts. These levels are illustrated with examples from economics, psychology, sociology, social studies of science, management research, and organization theory. Ethnostatistics is extended into other domains including qualimetrics, methodological myths and urban legends, and bibliometric assessments of academic performance.
  target audience: specialized
  note: by Robert P. Gephart Jr. & Rohny Saylors ; edited by Paul Atkinson, Sara Delamont, Alexandru Cernat, Joseph W. Sakshaug & Richard A. Williams.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Anthropology
  subject:
    topic: Business and Management
  subject:
    topic: Communication and Media Studies
  subject:
    topic: Anthropologie
  subject:
    topic: anthropology
  subject:
    topic: Anthropology
  classification: GN11
  classification: 301.0322
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Ethnomethodology and ethnoscience
  identifier: 9781529745160
  identifier: 1529745160
  identifier: 9781526421036
  identifier: 1526421038
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: SGPBL
    record creation date: 201001
    record change date: 20260205205649.3
    record identifier: in00005681243
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng