The philosophy of measurement studies the conceptual, ontological, epistemic, and
technological conditions that make measurement possible and reliable. A new wave of …

Measurement is an integral part of modern science as well as of engineering, commerce,
and daily life. Measurement is often considered a hallmark of the scientific enterprise and a …

There were three independent measurement systems using three different Pitot probes on
the aircraft. In principle, this redundancy might have enabled a top-down uncertainty …

Rating scales are popular methods for generating quantitative data directly by persons
rather than automated technologies. But scholars increasingly challenge their foundations …

This open access book proposes a conceptual framework for understanding measurement
across a broad range of scientific fields and areas of application, such as physics …

Calibration procedures establish a reliable relation between the final states ('indications') of
a measurement process and features of the objects being measured ('outcomes'). This …

Although measurement has been an important component of human activities for millennia,
it remains remarkably difficult to provide a fully satisfactory definition of the concept. In part …

Lord Kelvin famously stated that “when you can measure what you are speaking about and
express it in numbers you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it… your …

The conduct of most of social science occurs outside the laboratory. Such studies in field
science explore phenomena that cannot for practical, technical, or ethical reasons be …

Against the tradition, which has considered measurement able to produce pure data on
physical systems, the unavoidable role played by the modeling activity in measurement is …