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200 10$aDoes measurement measure up? $ehow numbers reveal and conceal the truth /$fJohn M. Henshaw
205   $a1st ed.
210   $aBaltimore $cJohns Hopkins University Press$dc2006
215   $a1 online resource (245 p.) 
300   $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
311   $a0-8018-8375-X 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [217]-222) and index.
327   $aIntro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER 1 OF LOVE AND LUMINESCENCE: What, Why, and How Things Get Measured -- CHAPTER 2 DOING THE MATH: Scales, Standards, and Some Beautiful Measurements -- CHAPTER 3 THE RATINGS GAME: ''Overall'' Measurements and Rankings -- CHAPTER 4 MEASUREMENT IN BUSINESS: What Gets Measured Gets Done -- CHAPTER 5 GAMES OF INCHES: Sports and Measurement -- CHAPTER 6 MEASURING THE MIND: Intelligence, Biology, and Education -- CHAPTER 7 MAN: The Measure of All Things -- CHAPTER 8 IT'S NOT JUST THE HEAT, IT'S THE HUMIDITY: Global Warming and Environmental Measurement -- CHAPTER 9 GARBAGE IN, GARBAGE OUT: The Computer and Measurement -- CHAPTER 10 HOW FUNNY IS THAT?: Knowledge Without Measurement? -- CHAPTER 11 FAITH, HOPE, AND LOVE: The Future of Measurement-and of Knowledge -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
330   $aAs we evolve from unquantified ignorance to an imperfect but everpresent state of measured awareness, Henshaw gives us a critical perspective from which we can "measure upthe measurements that have come to affect our lives so greatly.
606   $aMeasurement
606   $aUncertainty (Information theory)
606   $aKnowledge, Theory of
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