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What this book knows
Measurement is not neutral description but a human-made window that shapes the very realities—physical, social, psychological—it claims to reveal.
mind-and-cognition
'whatever received a name must be an entity or being, having an independent existence of its own'—the ever-present danger of reification in measurement.
VLA-3AAD4F13-RC-034Pragmatic measurement simultaneously defines the attribute being measured and specifies how to measure it—concept and operation collapse into one.
VLA-3AAD4F13-RC-029Measurement provides a window through which we view the world—we map complexity to simplified models, then investigate, predict, and control through them.
VLA-3AAD4F13-RC-096ambition-and-status
Stock market indices, GDP, deprivation scores, earnings—economic measurement shapes the very social hierarchies it purports to track.
VLA-3AAD4F13-RC-082Health-related quality of life spans physical functioning, emotional functioning, cognitive functioning—an ambitious attempt to quantify human flourishing entire.
VLA-3AAD4F13-RC-061obedience-and-authority
A platinum-iridium bar held at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures defined the metre—authority over reality lodged in a single physical object.
VLA-3AAD4F13-RC-014Illuminates
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