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

by John M. Henshaw

Book Overview

A critical perspective of how measurements have come to affect our lives--from reasonable doubt to No Child Left Behind.

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080188375X
• ISBN13: 9780801883750
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher