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Scores and classifications are dual to one another. Cardinal and ordinal measures are repeatedly used to produce nominal classifications of essential worth. Conversely, presumptively natural kinds provide the basis for new measurement and scoring systems. Over time, the iterative application of nominal classifications and quantifying measures produce involuted, nested systems whose structure and o…

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Creator

  • Fourcade, Marion
  • Healy, Kieran

Subject

  • Social sciences, sociology, anthropology
  • Market classifications; scores; categories; classification situations; market sociology
  • Methods and Techniques of Data Collection and Data Analysis, Statistical Methods, Computer Methods
  • measurement instrument
  • artificial intelligence
  • market segmentation
  • data
  • category
  • quantification
  • sociology of knowledge
  • …
  • Artificial intelligence

Type of item

  • Zeitschriftenartikel