Social science researchers have become increasing attentive to the role of numbers in contemporary life. Issues around big data, national test results, and outp

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The Politics of Numbers is the first major study of the social and political forces behind the nation's statistics. In more than a dozen essays, its editors and

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The author takes the general reader on a tour of the mathematical puzzles and paradoxes inherent in voting systems, such as the Alabama Paradox, in which an inc