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Down to the scutwork
I think the last substantive revisions are done. Left to do: Write a paragraph of acknowledgments at the end of the preface. Check the last two chapters, the last ones that I haven’t yet, for awkward phrasing (such as unnecessary, the stuff you don’t need, parenthetical comments). Check references against the text. Complete the marketing […]
Down to the last few tasks…
I hope everyone who celebrates Christmas is having (or have had) a wonderful day. For those who aren’t but keep the Julian calendar system, happy Isaac Newton’s birthday! For those of us who operate on the Gregorian (modern) calendar and who don’t celebrate Christmas, have a great day anyway. (For most of us, then, Newton’s […]
Expertise tackled; the world is next
Whew! I’ve split up the former chapter 2 into two chapters, expanded the analysis of expertise and the political drives for test-score accountability in the new chapter 2, and polished the new chapter 3 a bit. The rest of the revision checklist is now much narrower: Change chapter summaries in preface and new chapter 6 […]
Theodore Porter, Trust in Numbers, and picking the right fights
On the way to and from my mother-in-law’s house today, I finished Theodore Porter’s Trust in Numbers (1995). (I should say that I finished it while my spouse was driving!) While I was distraught this morning at Porter’s style, I slogged through, a matter which I knew was important. And the book has plenty of […]
Kids, don’t write these sentences at home
I was wondering why I just couldn’t get far in Theodore Porter’s Trust in Numbers (1995) until I came across the following (on p. 15): Lorraine Daston instances Charles Dufay, a French researcher of the 1720s and 1730s, to epitomize a different experimental ideal. So it’s not my lagging attention due to a virus. It’s […]