03797nam a22005775i 4500001001800000003000900018005001700027007001500044008004100059020003700100024003500137050001300172072001400185072001600199072002300215072001300238072001500251100008300266245014500349250001800494264007500512300004500587336002600632337002600658338003600684347002400720490008700744505039000831520130901221650002802530650003402558650002502592650001302617650003202630650003302662650002002695650005802715650003402773650003402807650002502841710003402866773002602900776003602926776003602962776003602998830009403034856004603128912001403174912001403188999001703202978-3-031-51254-4DE-He21320251030111507.0cr nn 008mamaa240312s2024    sz |    s    |||| 0|eng d  a97830315125449978-3-031-51254-47 a10.1007/978-3-031-51254-42doi 4aH1-970.9 7aJ2bicssc 7aJHB2bicssc 7aSOC0000002bisacsh 7aJ2thema 7aJHB2thema1 aBrian, Éric.eauthor.4aut4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut97268610aAre Statistics Only Made of Data?h[electronic resource] :bKnow-how and Presupposition from the 17th and 19th Centuries /cby Éric Brian.  a1st ed. 2024. 1aCham :bSpringer International Publishing :bImprint: Springer,c2024.  aXIII, 169 p. 20 illus.bonline resource.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  atext filebPDF2rda1 aMethodos Series, Methodological Prospects in the Social Sciences,x2542-9892 ;v200 aForeword: The Peculiar Meanings of Data -- Chapter 1: Considering Data: Critique and Method -- Chapter 2: Data Arithmetic, Ratios and Mechanical Reasoning in the 17th Century -- Chapter 3: Analytical Probability, Averages and Data Distributions in the 19th Century -- Chapter 4: Idols, Paradigms and Specters in Data Sciences -- List of illustations.-List of references.-General index.  aThis book examines several epistemological regimes in studies of numerical data over the last four centuries. It distinguishes these regimes and mobilises questions present in the philosophy of science, sociology and historical works throughout the 20th century. Attention is given to the skills of scholars and their methods, their assumptions, and the socio-historical conditions that made calculations and their interpretations possible. In doing so, questions posed as early as Émile Durkheim’s and Ernst Cassirer’s ones are revisited and the concept of symbolic form is put to the test in this particular survey, conducted over long period of time. Although distinct from a methodological and epistemological point of view, today these regimes may be found together in the toolbox of statisticians and those who comment on their conclusions. As such, the book is addressed to social scientists and historians and all those who are interested in numerical productions. This book is a translation of an original French edition. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation. 0aSocial sciences.961373 0aSampling (Statistics).959805 0aStatistics .965982 0aHistory. 0aSciencexPhilosophy.963307 0aKnowledge, Theory of.95922214aSociety.96368824aMethodology of Data Collection and Processing.96594624aHistory of Statistics.97268724aPhilosophy of Science.96856024aEpistemology.9697832 aSpringerLink (Online service)0 tSpringer Nature eBook08iPrinted edition:z978303151253708iPrinted edition:z978303151255108iPrinted edition:z9783031512568 0aMethodos Series, Methodological Prospects in the Social Sciences,x2542-9892 ;v2097268840uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-51254-4  aZDB-2-SLS  aZDB-2-SXS  c58197d58197