(单词翻译:单击)
中英文本
These innovations carried extraordinary potential for governments. By simplifying diverse populations down to specific indicators, and displaying them in suitable tables, governments could circumvent the need to acquire broader detailed local and historical insight. Of course, viewed from a different perspective, this blindness to local cultural variability is precisely what makes statistics vulgar and potentially offensive. Regardless of whether a given nation had any common cultural identity, statisticians would assume some standard uniformity or, some might argue, impose that uniformity upon it.
这些创新为政府带来了巨大的潜力
Not every aspect of a given population can be captured by statistics. There is always an implicit choice in what is included and what is excluded, and this choice can become a political issue in its own right. The fact that GDP only captures the value of paid work, thereby excluding the work traditionally done by women in the domestic sphere, has made it a target of feminist critique since the 1960s. In France, it has been illegal to collect census data on ethnicity since 1978, on the basis that such data could be used for racist political purposes. (This has the side-effect of making systemic racism in the labour market much harder to quantify.)
统计数据并不能捕捉到特定种群的每一个方面
Despite these criticisms, the aspiration to depict a society in its entirety, and to do so in an objective fashion, has meant that various progressive ideals have been attached to statistics. The image of statistics as a dispassionate science of society is only one part of the story. The other part is about how powerful political ideals became invested in these techniques: ideals of "evidence-based policy", rationality, progress and nationhood grounded in facts, rather than in romanticised stories.
尽管有这些批评,但要以客观的方式完整地描绘一个社会的愿望就意味着各种进步的理想都附在了统计数字之上
词语解释
1.regardless of 不顾,不管
Everyone has the right to good medical care regardless of their ability to pay.
无论支付能力如何,每个人都有权得到良好的医疗
2.side-effect 副作用,附带后果
The policy limited inflation, but had the unwanted side-effect of creating fuel shortages.
这项政策限制了通胀,但也有不受欢迎的副作用:造成燃油短缺
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