Coming to Terms with Chance: Engaging Rational Discrimination and Cumulative Disadvantage - Softcover

Gandy, Oscar H.

 
9781138260474: Coming to Terms with Chance: Engaging Rational Discrimination and Cumulative Disadvantage

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The application of probability and statistics to an ever-widening number of life-decisions serves to reproduce, reinforce, and widen disparities in the quality of life that different groups of people can enjoy. As a critical technology assessment, the ways in which bad luck early in life increase the probability that hardship and loss will accumulate across the life course are illustrated. Analysis shows the ways in which individual decisions, informed by statistical models, shape the opportunities people face in both market and non-market environments.

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Oscar H. Gandy, Jr, is Professor Emeritus of Communication, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, USA.

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ISBN 10:  0754679616 ISBN 13:  9780754679615
Verlag: Routledge, 2009
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