Equivalence: Elizabeth L. Scott At Berkeley
by Amanda L. Golbeck /
2017 / English / PDF
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Equivalence: Elizabeth L. Scott at Berkeley
Equivalence: Elizabeth L. Scott at Berkeley is the
compelling story of one pioneering statistician’s relentless
twenty-year effort to promote the status of women in academe and
science. Part biography and part microhistory, the book provides
the context and background to understand Scott’s masterfulness at
using statistics to help solve societal problems. In addition to
being one of the first researchers to work at the interface of
astronomy and statistics and an early practitioner of statistics
using high-speed computers, Scott worked on an impressively broad
range of questions in science, from whether cloud seeding
actually works to whether ozone depletion causes skin cancer.
Later in her career, Scott became swept up in the academic
women’s movement. She used her well-developed scientific research
skills together with the advocacy skills she had honed, in such
activities as raising funds for Martin Luther King Jr. and
keeping Free Speech Movement students out of jail, toward policy
making that would improve the condition of the academic workforce
for women. The book invites the reader into Scott’s universe, a
window of inspiration made possible by the fact that she saved
and dated every piece of paper that came across her desk.
is the
compelling story of one pioneering statistician’s relentless
twenty-year effort to promote the status of women in academe and
science. Part biography and part microhistory, the book provides
the context and background to understand Scott’s masterfulness at
using statistics to help solve societal problems. In addition to
being one of the first researchers to work at the interface of
astronomy and statistics and an early practitioner of statistics
using high-speed computers, Scott worked on an impressively broad
range of questions in science, from whether cloud seeding
actually works to whether ozone depletion causes skin cancer.
Later in her career, Scott became swept up in the academic
women’s movement. She used her well-developed scientific research
skills together with the advocacy skills she had honed, in such
activities as raising funds for Martin Luther King Jr. and
keeping Free Speech Movement students out of jail, toward policy
making that would improve the condition of the academic workforce
for women. The book invites the reader into Scott’s universe, a
window of inspiration made possible by the fact that she saved
and dated every piece of paper that came across her desk.
