Download or read book The Uses and Misuses of Data and Models written by James Bradley and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1998-06-10 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Undeniably, the amount of "information" in our culture has increased by leaps and bounds. At the same time, discussion of values, norms and purpose is often missing from the discourse of social research - especially by those who work within the positivist framework. The authors of this book develop principles to guide the use of data and models in the human sciences. Writing as scholars who are at home with empirical and mathematical social science, yet taking seriously the critiques of this heritage, they propose ways of developing norms without becoming subjective.