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Educational Research - the Ethics and Aesthetics of Statistics

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Contents<br />

10 The Good, <strong>the</strong> Beautiful <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> Literate: Making <strong>Statistics</strong><br />

Accessible for Action .......................... 145<br />

Jean Paul Van Bendegem, Karen François,<br />

<strong>and</strong> Kathleen Coessens<br />

11 <strong>Statistics</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> Inference to <strong>the</strong> Best Explanation:<br />

Living Without Complexity? ..................... 161<br />

Paul Smeyers<br />

12 Performativity, <strong>Statistics</strong> <strong>and</strong> Bloody Words ............. 177<br />

Ian Munday<br />

13 A Bubble for <strong>the</strong> Spirit Level: Metricophilia, Rhetoric<br />

<strong>and</strong> Philosophy ............................. 189<br />

Richard Smith<br />

14 Calling to Account ........................... 205<br />

Paul St<strong>and</strong>ish<br />

About <strong>the</strong> Authors .............................. 215<br />

Author Index ................................. 219<br />

Subject Index ................................. 223

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