statisticalization
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From statistical + -ization.
Noun
[edit]statisticalization (uncountable)
- A making statistical; application of statistics to something.
- 2000, William Walters, Unemployment and Government, page 49:
- […] a major development in the statisticalization of unemployment, and a new type of representation of the labour market.
- 2008, Susan Greenhalgh, Just One Child: Science and Policy in Deng's China, page 109:
- Quantification (or statisticalization) is a set of scientific practices that transforms text statements into numerical ones, depersonalizing and decontextualizing them […]