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 | #751791 in Books |  Harvard University Press |  2008-04-30 |  2008-03-31 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  7.98 x1.06 x5.28l,1.01 | File type: PDF | 408 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| This is one of the best academic books I've read in years|By Jeffrey Friedman|This is one of the best academic books I've read in years. The book is extremely well-written and interesting.|3 of 9 people found the following review helpful.| Useful, But Not Exactly A Fun Read|By Anne Mills|This book proposes and documents an impo|From Booklist|In a nation that values privacy and individualism, why do Americans so eagerly answer surveys and treasure the resulting data? Igo explores how changes in commerce, governance, culture, and the socia

Americans today “know” that a majority of the population supports the death penalty, that half of all marriages end in divorce, and that four out of five prefer a particular brand of toothpaste. Through statistics like these, we feel that we understand our fellow citizens. But remarkably, such data―now woven into our social fabric―became common currency only in the last century. Sarah Igo tells the story, for the first time, of how opinion polls, man-i...

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