Measurement across the sciences : developing a shared concept system for measurement / Luca Mari, Mark Wilson, Andrew Maul.
2023
QC88
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Title
Measurement across the sciences : developing a shared concept system for measurement / Luca Mari, Mark Wilson, Andrew Maul.
Author
Mari, Luca, 1962- author.
Edition
Second edition.
ISBN
9783031224485 (electronic bk.)
3031224485 (electronic bk.)
9783031224478 (print)
3031224485 (electronic bk.)
9783031224478 (print)
Published
Cham : Springer, 2023.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xxxix, 307 pages) : illustrations (some color).
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-031-22448-5 doi
Call Number
QC88
Dewey Decimal Classification
389/.1
Summary
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, engineering, education, and psychology. It addresses contemporary issues and controversies within measurement in light of the framework, including operationalism, definitional uncertainty, and the relations between measurement and computation, and describes how the framework, operating as a shared concept system, supports understanding measurement's work in different domains, using examples in the physical and human sciences. This revised and expanded second edition features a new analysis of the analogies and the differences between the error/uncertainty-related approach adopted in physical measurement and the validity-related approach adopted in psychosocial measurement. In addition, it provides a better analysis and presentation of measurement scales, in particular about their relations with quantity units, and introduces the measurand identification/definition as a part of the "Hexagon Framework" along with new examples from the physical and psychosocial sciences. Researchers and academics across a wide range of disciplines including biological, physical, social, and behavioral scientists, as well as specialists in measurement and philosophy appreciate the work's fresh and provocative approach to the field at a time when sound measurements of complex scientific systems are increasingly essential to solving critical global problems.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Open access.
Source of Description
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed February 28, 2023).
Series
Springer series in measurement science and technology, 2198-7815
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Fundamental Concepts in Measurement
Technical and Cultural Contexts for Measurement Systems
Philosophical Perspectives on Measurement
What is Measured?
Values, Scales, and the Existence of Properties
Modeling Measurement and Its Quality
Conclusion.
Fundamental Concepts in Measurement
Technical and Cultural Contexts for Measurement Systems
Philosophical Perspectives on Measurement
What is Measured?
Values, Scales, and the Existence of Properties
Modeling Measurement and Its Quality
Conclusion.