Beyond Subjective and Objective in Statistics

Gelman, A., & Hennig, C. (2017). Beyond Subjective and Objective in Statistics. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A, 180(4), 967-1033.

Type

Journal article

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Primary research

Year

2017

DOI

10.1111/rssa.12276

Link

https://doi.org/10.1111/rssa.12276

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philosophy

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• Reification
  • Goodhart is a downstream consequence, not the move itself. Not essentialism (see essentialism). essentialism treats a category as having a fixed inner nature; reification is the broader move of treating any abstraction (score, dashboard, map) as the substrate.

    This sourceCritiques the reification of statistical constructs as fixed properties rather than purpose-built measurements, supporting essentialism-about-constructed-categories as a species of reification.

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