Measurement, Metrology, and the Coordination of Sociotechnical Networks

9 Pages Posted: 12 Sep 2011

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William P. Fisher

University of California, Berkeley - BEAR Center

Date Written: September 11, 2011

Abstract

Exact, reproducible and well maintained international standards are needed not only in the natural sciences and engineering, but are of increasing concern today in education, health care, government, business intelligence, and the economy at large. Metrological practice gives rise to complex adaptive systems in which meaningful relationships are socially conceived and brought to life. All scientific units should be established with equal rigor, and all measures should be based on consensus standard metrics valued for their accuracy, stability and availability. Fifty years of research and practice employing probabilistic models of psychosocial constructs document individual-level structural invariances capable of supporting metrological traceability. Complex adaptive systems of this kind offer new opportunities for extending the true union of mathematics and measurement into the psychosocial sciences

Keywords: complex adaptive systems, self-organization, market creation, Rasch models, measurement, markets, information quality, metrology, standards, surveys, tests, assessments, coordination studies, psychometrics, traceability

JEL Classification: B41, C13, C42, C51, C52, C60, C81, C82, D70, D80, G14, O32, P11

Suggested Citation

Fisher, William P., Measurement, Metrology, and the Coordination of Sociotechnical Networks (September 11, 2011). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1925847 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1925847

William P. Fisher (Contact Author)

University of California, Berkeley - BEAR Center ( email )

Berkeley, CA 94704
United States

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