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Author : Karl Pearson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book National Life from the Standpoint of Science written by Karl Pearson and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Aubrey Clayton
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231553358
Total Pages : 641 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Bernoulli's Fallacy written by Aubrey Clayton and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a logical flaw in the statistical methods used across experimental science. This fault is not a minor academic quibble: it underlies a reproducibility crisis now threatening entire disciplines. In an increasingly statistics-reliant society, this same deeply rooted error shapes decisions in medicine, law, and public policy with profound consequences. The foundation of the problem is a misunderstanding of probability and its role in making inferences from observations. Aubrey Clayton traces the history of how statistics went astray, beginning with the groundbreaking work of the seventeenth-century mathematician Jacob Bernoulli and winding through gambling, astronomy, and genetics. Clayton recounts the feuds among rival schools of statistics, exploring the surprisingly human problems that gave rise to the discipline and the all-too-human shortcomings that derailed it. He highlights how influential nineteenth- and twentieth-century figures developed a statistical methodology they claimed was purely objective in order to silence critics of their political agendas, including eugenics. Clayton provides a clear account of the mathematics and logic of probability, conveying complex concepts accessibly for readers interested in the statistical methods that frame our understanding of the world. He contends that we need to take a Bayesian approach—that is, to incorporate prior knowledge when reasoning with incomplete information—in order to resolve the crisis. Ranging across math, philosophy, and culture, Bernoulli’s Fallacy explains why something has gone wrong with how we use data—and how to fix it.
Author : Sir Norman Lockyer
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 716 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Nature written by Sir Norman Lockyer and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Henry Pearson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book National Life and Character written by Charles Henry Pearson and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Roger Luckhurst
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719059117
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (591 download)
Download or read book Transactions and Encounters written by Roger Luckhurst and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines Irish Poor Law reform during the years of the Irish revolution and Irish Free State. This work is a significant addition to the growing historiography of the twentieth century which moves beyond political history, and demonstrates that concepts of respectability, social class and gender are central dynamics in Irish society. This book provides the first major study of local welfare practices and exploration of policies, attitudes and the poor.This monograph examines local public assistance regimes, institutional and child welfare, and hospital care. It charts the transformation of workhouses into a network of local authority welfare and healthcare institutions including county homes, county hospitals, and mother and baby homes.The book's exploration of welfare and healthcare during revolutionary and independent Ireland provides fresh and original insights into this critical juncture in Irish history. The book will appeal to Irish historians and those with interests in welfare, the Poor Law and the social history of medicine and institutions.
Author : Iowa. General Assembly
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1484 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Legislative Documents Submitted to the ... General Assembly of the State of Iowa written by Iowa. General Assembly and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 1484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Iowa. General Assembly
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1454 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Legislative Documents written by Iowa. General Assembly and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 1454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains the reports of state departments and officials for the preceding fiscal biennium.
Author : Elias Mpofu
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030596877
Total Pages : 653 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Sustainable Community Health written by Elias Mpofu and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-01-21 with total page 653 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Applying a trans-disciplinary approach, this book provides a comprehensive, research-based guide to understanding, implementing, and strengthening sustainable community health in diverse international settings. By examining the interdependence of environmental, economic, public health, community wellbeing and development factors, the authors address the systemic factors impacting health disparities, inequality and social justice issues. The book analyzes strategies based on a partnership view of health, in which communities determine their health and wellness working alongside local, state and federal health agencies. Crucially, it demonstrates that communities are themselves health systems and their wellbeing capabilities affect the health of individuals and the collective alike. It identifies health indicators and tools that communities and policy makers can utilize to sustain truly inclusive health systems. This book offers a unique resource for researchers and practitioners working across psychology, mental health, rehabilitation, public health, epidemiology, social policy, healthcare and allied health.
Author : Olive Schreiner
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1770487921
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Dreams written by Olive Schreiner and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2020-10-22 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dreams is a work that defies conventional categorization; however, one might best capture its unique formal structure by construing it as a series of prose poems or narrative paintings, a starkly modern text inflected by the far older tradition of the medieval dream-vision poem. Though a work of prophecy, it proceeds with a light touch. The sequence of eleven dreams, loosely interlinked, leaves us to wrestle with our doubts; it takes up thorny questions that challenge a culture right where it may tend to be its proudest. The landscape of the work shifts as it moves among the African savannah, congested late-industrial London, and the olive tree-studded hillsides of Italy. The intersectionality of Schreiner’s writing—its concern with gender, sexual orientation, class, nation, and race—makes her a particularly salient voice for today’s students. The appendices to this edition provide an accessible representation of Schreiner’s key contexts, South African and British as well as American. The introduction features a biographical overview of a writer wrestling with questions of social justice pertinent to her own era yet relevant to our contemporary moment.
Author : Chris Meyns
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351130749
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)
Download or read book Information and the History of Philosophy written by Chris Meyns and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-06-17 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years the philosophy of information has emerged as an important area of research in philosophy. However, until now information’s philosophical history has been largely overlooked. Information and the History of Philosophy is the first comprehensive investigation of the history of philosophical questions around information, including work from before the Common Era to the twenty-first century. It covers scientific and technology-centred notions of information, views of human information processing, as well as socio-political topics such as the control and use of information in societies. Organised into five parts, 19 chapters by an international team of contributors cover the following topics and more: Information before 500 CE, including ancient Chinese, Greek and Roman approaches to information; Early theories of information processing, sources of information and cognition; Information and computation in Leibniz, visualised scientific information, copyright and social reform; The nineteenth century, including biological information, knowledge economies and information’s role in empire and eugenics; Recent and contemporary philosophy of information, including racialised information, Shannon information and the very idea of an information revolution. Information and the History of Philosophy is a landmark publication in this emerging field. As such, it is essential reading for students and researchers in the history of philosophy, philosophy of science and technology, and library and information studies. It is also a valuable resource for those working in subjects such as the history of science, media and communication studies and intellectual history.
Author : Chloe Campbell
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719071607
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (716 download)
Download or read book Race and Empire written by Chloe Campbell and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2007-06-15 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Race and Empire tells the story of a short-lived but vehement eugenics movement that emerged among a group of Europeans in Kenya in the 1930s, unleashing a set of writings on racial differences in intelligence more extreme than that emanating from any other British colony in the twentieth century. The Kenyan eugenics movement of the 1930s adapted British ideas to the colonial environment: in all its extremity, Kenyan eugenics was not simply a bizarre and embarrassing colonial mutation, as it was later dismissed, but a logical extension of British eugenics in a colonial context. By tracing the history of eugenic thought in Kenya, the books shows how the movement took on a distinctive colonial character, driven by settler political preoccupations and reacting to increasingly outspoken African demands for better, and more independent, education. The economic fragility of Kenya in the early 1930s made the eugenicists particularly dependent on British financial support. Ultimately, the suspicious response of the Colonial Office and the Prime Minister, Ramsay MacDonald, backed up by a growing expert concern about race in science, led to the failure of Kenyan eugenics to gain the necessary British backing. Despite this lack of concrete success, eugenic theories on race and intelligence were widely supported by the medical profession in Kenya, as well as powerful members of the official and non-official European settler population. The long-term failures of the eugenics movement should not blind us to its influence among the social and administrative elite of colonial Kenya. Through a close examination of attitudes towards race and intelligence in a British colony, Race and Empire reveals how eugenics was central to colonial racial theories before World War Two.
Author : James Richard Moore
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521524780
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)
Download or read book History, Humanity and Evolution written by James Richard Moore and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-10-03 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History, Humanity and Evolution brings together thirteen original essays by prominent scholars in the history of evolutionary thought. The volume is intended both to represent the best of today's research in the field and also to celebrate the work of the distinguished historian, John C. Greene, whose historical writings have had a unique influence on this volume's contributors as well as the field as a whole. Using contemporary sources as diverse as medicine, literature, and natural history tableaux, and drawing on the resources of publishing history, feminist scholarship, and the histories of politics, sociology, and philosophy, the contributors offer new perspectives not only on familiar figures such as Erasmus and Charles Darwin, Lamarck, Chambers, Huxley, and Haeckel, but also on many lesser known participants in the evolutionary debates. The volume contains a fascinating introductory conversation with John C. Greene and an afterword by him that responds to the contributors' essays.
Author : George Levine
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691136394
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book Darwin Loves You written by George Levine and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2008-03-30 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Without minimising or sentimentalising the harsh qualities of life governed by natural selection, and without deifying Darwin, this text makes a moving case for an enchanted secularism - a commitment to the value of the natural world and the human striving to understand it.
Author : British Association for the Advancement of Science
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1146 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (37 download)
Download or read book Report of the ... Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science written by British Association for the Advancement of Science and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 1146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : British Association for the Advancement of Science. Meeting
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1148 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Report of the ... Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science written by British Association for the Advancement of Science. Meeting and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 1148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Herman Randall
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231041430
Total Pages : 722 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (414 download)
Download or read book The Making of the Modern Mind written by John Herman Randall and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveys the intellectual background of man from medieval times through the Renaissance to modern times.
Author : Bernard Magubane
Publisher : Africa World Press
ISBN 13 : 9780865432413
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (324 download)
Download or read book The Making of a Racist State written by Bernard Magubane and published by Africa World Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did the Union of South Africa come to be dominated by a white minority? That is the obvious but haunting question addressed in this remarkable historical survey which documents and analyses the chain of events that led up to the passing in 1909 of the South African Act' by the British Parliament.'
