In The Sum of Our Discontent, David Boyle has put his finger on the problem with our numbers-obsessed societies: The trouble is that numbers have proliferated and that it is sometimes hard to tell the difference between a good statistic and a bad one and that therefore numbers have become meaningless and in the process reduced humans to be coldly calculating.
- ISBN10 1587990601
- ISBN13 9781587990601
- Publish Date 17 June 2001
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 4 August 2016
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Cengage Learning, Inc
- Imprint Texere Publishing
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 240
- Language English