Does Measurement Measure Up? - How Numbers Reveal and Conceal the Truth

Informationen zum Autor John M. Henshaw is the department chair and Harry H. Rogers Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Tulsa. He is the author of An Equation for Every Occasion: Fifty-Two Formulas and Why They Matter and A Tour of the Senses: How Your Brain Interprets the World. Klappentext Henshaw tells the controversial story of intelligence measurement from Plato to Binet to the early days of the SAT to today's super-quantified world of No Child Left Behind. He clears away the fog on issues of measurement in the environment, such as global warming, hurricanes, and tsunamis, and in the world of computers, from digital photos to MRI to the ballot systems used in Florida during the 2000 presidential election. From cycling and car racing to baseball, tennis, and track-and-field, he chronicles the ever-growing role of measurement in sports, raising important questions about performance and the folly of comparing today's athletes to yesterday's records. Zusammenfassung As 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.

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• Authors: John M Henshaw, John M. Henshaw, John M. (Harry H. Rogers Professor of Mec Henshaw, John M. (Harry H. Rogers Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Department Chair Henshaw
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2006
• EAN: 9780801883750
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-8375-0
• No. of pages: 248
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > General, dictionaries; SCIENCE / History, MATHEMATICS / Applied, MATHEMATICS / Measurement, History of Science, Physics, Scientific standards, measurement etc, Applied mathematics, Applied physics