There was once a time when we could not measure sound, color, blood
pressure, or even time. We now find ourselves in the throes of a
measurement revolution, from the laboratory to the sports arena,
from the classroom to the courtroom, from a strand of DNA to the
far reaches of outer space. Measurement controls our lives at work,
at school, at home, and even at play. But does all this measurement
really measure up? Here, John Henshaw examines the ways in which
measurement makes sense or creates nonsense.
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.
We can't quite measure everything, at least not yet. What could
be more difficult to quantify than reasonable doubt? However, even
our justice system is yielding to the measurement revolution with
new forensic technologies such as DNA fingerprinting.
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 up" the
measurements that have come to affect our lives so greatly.
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