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Gillborn, David; Warmington, Paul; Demack, Sean – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2018
Quantitative research enjoys heightened esteem among policy-makers, media, and the general public. Whereas qualitative research is frequently dismissed as subjective and impressionistic, statistics are often assumed to be objective and factual. We argue that these distinctions are wholly false; quantitative data is no less socially constructed…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Race, Critical Theory, Criticism