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Based on a symposium hosted by the American Philosophical Society, Evidence: The Use and Misuse of Data brings together essays from scholars representing a host of disciplines from statistics through psychology and anthropology to examine the question of evidence and what it means.
Contributors examine the place of evidence across a host of research areas, including early psychiatric methods, ethnographic fieldwork, antebellum African American historical debates, and the historicization of artificial intelligence. While the essays delve into issues surrounding specific cases, an overarching theme emerges: that human judgment is essential in interpreting and evaluating evidence and that assessing evidence is a process.
Featuring an introduction by Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Linda Greenhouse, the collection is a valuable resource for scholars and students in any field that relies on empirical observation and its interpretation.
Contributors: Nicholas Barron, Gordon Fraser, Linda Greenhouse, Lindsey Grubbs, Robert M. Hauser, Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Jennifer Burek Pierce, Angela G. Ray, Jutta Schickore, Andrew M. Schocket, Richard Shiffrin, Joshua Sternfeld, Stephen M. Stigler, Mark Turin.
Introduction: Data, Knowledge, and the Space Between
1. Evaluating Evidence Requires Expert Judgment
2. Peculiar Blue Spots: Evidence and Causes Around 1800
3. Bunk History and the Standards of Historical Interpretation
4. Novel Democracy: Readers, Evidence, and the Commonplace Book of Elizabeth Phillips Payson, 1806—25
5. Archival Profusion, Archival Silence, and Analytic Invention: Antebellum Charleston's African American Debaters
6. Isaac Ray and the Case: Narrative, Data, and Early Psychiatric Method
7. The Limits of Control: Anthropology, the Pascua Yaqui Tribe, and Federal Recognition in the United States
8. The Use and Misuse of Anthropological Evidence: Digital Himalaya as Ethnographic Knowledge (Re)Production
9. Historical Evidence, Artificial Intelligence, and the Black Box Effect
10. When Voices Became Data: Reading Data Documenting Contemporary Reading
Conclusion: About Evidence and the Use and Misuse of Data
Index