Browse Items (20 total)

'STATISTICS: Longer Lives', TIME magazine

Tags: Statistics

'Making Up People', London Review of Books

Tags: 2000s; 2006; 2006-8-17; Classification; Hacking, Ian; Human Sciences; Medicine; Multiple Personality Disorder; Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychotherapy; Statistics

'Why statistics tend not only to describe the world but to change it', London Review of Books

Tags: 2000; 2000-4-13; 2000s; Alain Desrosi�res; Daston, Lorraine; Ian Hacking; Marie-No�lle Bourguet; Mary Morgan; Mathematics; Maths; Statistics; Stephen Stigler; Theodore Porter

'Faith, Hope and Probability', London Review of Books

Tags: 1990s; 1991; 1991-5-23; Douglas, Mary; History of Science; Ian Hacking; Maths; probability; Statistics

'The myth of high-tech jobs', Harpers

Tags: 1980s; 1984; 1984-8-1; Employment forecasting; Forecasting; Labor supply; Social sciences; Statistics; United States

'When Gould meets Galton', London Review of Books

Tags: 1980s; 1982; 1982-12-30; Anthropometry; Biology; Edwards, A. W. F.; Evolution; Evolutionary biology; Francis Galton; Statistics; Stephen Jay Gould

'Hereditary Genius', London Review of Books

Tags: 1980s; 1981; 1981-6-8; Biology; Biometry; Donald Mackenzie; Edwards, A. W. F.; Eugenics; Genetics; Heredity; History of Science; Statistics

'The surgeon�s dilemma', Harpers

Tags: 1970s; 1975; 1975-5-1; Conflict of interests; Crile, George Jr; Fees; Health maintenance organizations; Medical ethics; Medicine; Professional ethics; Staffing, Funding and Institutions; Statistics; Surgeons; Surgery; United States; Unnecessary

'Reducing the hazards of birth', Harpers

Tags: 1960s; 1964; 1964-1-1; Abnormalities; Barnes, Allan C.; Childbirth; Complications; Contraception; Human; Labor (Obstetrics); Medicine; Mental retardation; Prenatal care; Reproduction and Development; Statistics; United States

'The mathematics of sex, gambling, and insurance', Harpers

Tags: 1950s; 1959; 1959-9-1; Gambling systems; Huff, Darrell; Insurance; Mathematical statistics; Maths; Probabilities; Sex ratio; Statistics; United States

'Baseball', Harpers

Tags: 1950s; 1957; 1957-5-1; Baseball; Maths; Probabilities; probabilty; Records; Schwed, Fred; Statistics; United States

'Dr. Kinsey�s second sex', Harpers

Tags: 1950s; 1953; 1953-9-1; Alfred C. Kinsey; Freedgood, Anne G.; Gender and Sexuality; Ind.); Institute for Sex Research (Bloomington; Other; Sex customs; Sexual behavior; Statistics; United States; Women

'Caution', Harpers

Tags: 1950s; 1953; 1953-1-1; Communicable diseases; Disease; Engel, Leonard; Medical; Medical misconceptions; Medicine; Statistics; United States; Vital

'How to lie with statistics', Harpers

Tags: 1950; 1950-8-1; 1950s; Huff, Darrell; Social sciences; Statistics; Truthfulness and falsehood; United States

'The Average Statistician', Colliers Weekly

Tags: 1950; 1950-6-17; 1950s; Miksch, W.F.; Science; Social sciences; Statistics

'Marriage Under the Microscope', Colliers Weekly

Tags: 1940s; 1943; 1943-5-15; Medicine; Palmer, Gretta; Psychology; Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychotherapy; relationship; Statistics

'Prophet of Doom', The New Yorker

Tags: 1930; 1930-2-15; 1930s; Economics; Forecasting; Other; Pringle, Henry F.; Roger Babson; spirituality; Statistics

'The problem of heart disease', Harpers

Tags: 1920s; 1927; 1927-1-1; Disease; Diseases; Dublin, Louis Israel; Heart; Heart Disease; Medicine; Mortality; Prevention; Public health; Statistics; United States

'Forecasting the growth of nations', Harpers

Tags: 1914-1918; 1920s; 1921; 1921-5-1; Birth control; Europe; Influence; Kelly, Fred C. (Fred Charters); Medicine; Moral and ethical aspects; Pearl, Raymond; Population; Population forecasting; Reproduction and Development; Statistics; United States; World War I

'Solving the problem of infant mortality', Harpers

Tags: 1910s; 1917; 1917-10-1; Children�s Bureau; Family life surveys; Hendrick, Burton Jesse; Infants; Johnstown; Julia Clifford Lathrop; Manchester; Maternal and infant welfare; Montclair; Mortality; New Hampshire; New Jersey; Pennsylvania; Reproduction and Development; Social sciences; Statistics; United States