Is our understanding of measurement evolving?

Mari, Luca

doi:10.21014/acta_imeko.v10i4.1169

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“…Both Durkheim's and Weber's strategies are concerned with establishing a well-defined reference to provide the necessary measurement standard to enable the comparability of results, considering the specific characteristics associated with their main object of study. These features denote the concern with ensuring the intersubjectivity of the measurement results, which, in turn, will be provided only by establishing global metrological traceability of the measurement results to reference properties [34]- [37].…”

Section: Metrology and The Analytical Framework Of Social Sciences' F...mentioning

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“…Recent studies have been endeavoring to meet the challenges associated with the complex characteristics of this scientific field [7]- [37]. Among the current academic initiatives, it is worth mentioning the successful incorporation of measurements in Social Sciences among investigations addressed by the International Measurement Confederation (IMEKO) [36]- [40], being evidenced a massive effort of this scientific community to promote metrology in this field, including efforts to lead both physical and "nonphysical" measurement in a single, consistent concept system [34]- [37].…”

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Metrology in the early days of Social Sciences

Vieira

Monteiro

2023

Acta IMEKO

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Recent studies have been endeavoring to overcome challenges to ensure reliable measurement results in Social Sciences and Humanities facing the complex characteristics of this scientific field. However, the literature indicates that the founding designers of sociology as an academic discipline expressed concerns regarding social measurements more than a century ago. Based on a literature review, the present work investigates possible metrological aspects already addressed in the early days of Social Science, focusing on the methodological conceptions of two of sociology’s early canons – notably Max Weber and Emile Durkheim. The present study reveals that the approaches contemporaneously developed by the two Social Sciences co-founders present diverse but fundamentally complementary configurations, allowing a wide range of social phenomena to be analyzable. Although employing their terminologies, both social scientists incorporated fundamental metrological concepts in their procedures’ parameters, seeking to establish a single reference, using statistical analysis or determining measurement standards that resemble what is known today as reference material. The concern with applying metrological concepts since the early days of creating sociology as a science reinforces the need to invest extensive efforts to provide uniformity of measurements in this remarkably relevant field of application of Measurement Science.

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Metrology in the early days of Social Sciences

Vieira

Monteiro

2023

Acta IMEKO

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“…This step will increase the motivation of the students to complete the course successfully. Moreover, some new tasks have been designed to minimize the number of instruments used, reduce the wiring diagrams, and fulfill the need for modern measurement applications in the industry [28] and [29]. In this way, in case of pandemics and lockdowns, the newly designed tasks could be easily modified for remote laboratories.…”

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How the COVID-19 changed the hands-on laboratory classes of electrical measurement

Svatoš

Holub

2022

Acta IMEKO

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This article depicts how COVID-19 affected practical teaching at Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Department of Measurement. It introduces the subject of Electrical Measurement and its hands-on laboratory classes. The course applies to more than 100 undergraduate students per semester. Since COVID-19 mainly affected the teaching of the hands-on laboratory courses, the article narrates how the COVID-19 lockdown has changed classes. An experience with the rapid transformation of lectures during the lockdown focusing on the hands-on laboratory classes is discussed, and the improvements that have been done to preserve its objectives, but also to adapt them to another possible lockdown, and the need to switch to the distance teaching, is revealed. The changes have been inspired by the results of a survey carried out among more than 250 students. The outline of the laboratory tasks transformation with an emphasis on the possibility of switching the real face-to-face measurement to the distance teaching remote lectures is described. The change includes reducing the number of laboratory tasks taught while preserving most of the objectives. All 11 new laboratory tasks are described in detail, and it is discussed how the possible change from hands-on to remote classes will affect every task.

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“…After having read the recently published paper [1], I am feeling, dictated perhaps by being a long-since metrologist, a compulsory need to write the Comments below, more from some sense of surprise than for a less appreciation for its Author. The comments concern the following quoted parts (where added Section numbers are the ones used here below):…”

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Comment to: L. Mari “Is our understanding of measurement evolving?”

Pavese

2022

ACTA IMEKO

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The present contribution is a comment which addresses the paper published in this Journal “Is our understanding of measurement evolving?” and authored by Luca Mari. This Technical Note concerns specific parts of that paper, namely the statements: “doubt: isn’t metrology a ‘real’ science? ... Metrology is a social body of knowledge”, “Measurements are aimed at attributing values to properties: since values are information entities, any measurement must then include an informational component” and “What sufficient conditions characterise measurement as a specific kind of property evaluation?”, and discusses alternatives.

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Is our understanding of measurement evolving?

Cited by 3 publications

References 11 publications

Metrology in the early days of Social Sciences

Metrology in the early days of Social Sciences

How the COVID-19 changed the hands-on laboratory classes of electrical measurement

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