Statistical Panic

IF 0.8 4区社会学 Q3 CULTURAL STUDIES

Differences-A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies Pub Date : 1999-06-01 DOI:10.1215/10407391-11-2-177

Kathleen M. Woodward

引用次数: 27

Abstract

Probability and statistics crowd in upon us. . . . There are more explicit statements of probabilities presented on American prime time television than explicit acts of violence. . . . Our public fears are endlessly debated in terms of probabilities: chances of meltdowns, cancers, muggings, earthquakes, nuclear winters, AIDS, global greenhouses, what next? There is nothing to fear (it may seem) but the probabilities themselves. (Hacking 4–5)

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统计恐慌

概率和统计学向我们涌来. . . .在美国黄金时段的电视节目中，对概率的明确表述比明确的暴力行为多得多. . . .我们的公众恐惧在概率方面被无休止地争论:核反应堆崩溃、癌症、抢劫、地震、核冬天、艾滋病、全球温室效应的可能性，接下来会发生什么?除了概率本身，没有什么可害怕的(看起来可能如此)。(黑客4 - 5)

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期刊介绍： differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies first appeared in 1989 at the moment of a critical encounter—a head-on collision, one might say—of theories of difference (primarily Continental) and the politics of diversity (primarily American). In the ensuing years, the journal has established a critical forum where the problematic of differences is explored in texts ranging from the literary and the visual to the political and social. differences highlights theoretical debates across the disciplines that address the ways concepts and categories of difference—notably but not exclusively gender—operate within culture.