Plenary Talk 5 - Measurements beyond the SI: On the Longstanding ExistencP of Metrology-ready Precision Quantities in psychology and the Social Sciences
- Event
- SMSI 2020
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(did not take place because of Covid-19 virus pandemic) - Band
- SMSI 2020
- Chapter
- SMSI 2020 - Plenary Talks
- Author(s)
- W. Fisher - University of California, Berkeley (USA)
- Pages
- 38 - 39
- DOI
- 10.5162/SMSI2020/5
- ISBN
- 978-3-9819376-2-6
- Price
- €0.00
Abstract
Pressing needs for improved information quality are emerging from every sector of life in the world today. Urgent calls for new kinds of thinking, however, almost always change only the content of thinking, not its processes. To obtain higher quality information, humanity must do two things commonly assumed impossible: (1) measure human abilities and attitudes using instruments calibrated to unit standards, and (2) do so without homogenizing, smothering, or ignoring individual differences. Neither of these tasks is impossible, they both have been accomplished and in use for decades.