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Database of Dreams: The Lost Quest to Catalog Humanity
Rebecca Lemov
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Description for Database of Dreams: The Lost Quest to Catalog Humanity
Hardback. An acclaimed science historian uncovers the fascinating story of a "lost" project to unlock humanity's common denominator that prefigured the emergence of Big Data Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: JHMC; JMH; PDX; TBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 635.
An acclaimed science historian uncovers the fascinating story of a lost project to unlock humanity's common denominator that prefigured the emergence of Big Data Just a few years before the dawn of the digital age, Harvard psychologist Bert Kaplan set out to build the largest database of sociological information ever assembled. It was the mid-1950s, and social scientists were entranced by the human insights promised by Rorschach tests and other innovative scientific protocols. Kaplan, along with anthropologist A. I. Hallowell and a team of researchers, sought out a varied range of non-European subjects among ... Read more
An acclaimed science historian uncovers the fascinating story of a lost project to unlock humanity's common denominator that prefigured the emergence of Big Data Just a few years before the dawn of the digital age, Harvard psychologist Bert Kaplan set out to build the largest database of sociological information ever assembled. It was the mid-1950s, and social scientists were entranced by the human insights promised by Rorschach tests and other innovative scientific protocols. Kaplan, along with anthropologist A. I. Hallowell and a team of researchers, sought out a varied range of non-European subjects among ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300209525
SKU
V9780300209525
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About Rebecca Lemov
Rebecca Lemov is associate professor of the history of science at Harvard University and past visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. She is the author of World as Laboratory: Experiments with Mice, Mazes, and Men, named a 2006 New York Times Editor's Choice. She lives in Cambridge, MA.
Reviews for Database of Dreams: The Lost Quest to Catalog Humanity
Lemov's contribution informs our understanding not only of how psychological research is managed but also of our own daily contributions, voluntary and otherwise, to a 'forever' database already being probed in increasingly intimate fashion. -Psychology Today
Psychology Today
A compelling account. -Wall Street Journal
Wall Street Journal
Lemov, a professor of the History of ... Read more
Psychology Today
A compelling account. -Wall Street Journal
Wall Street Journal
Lemov, a professor of the History of ... Read more