Historical and Conceptual Foundations of Measurement in the Human Sciences explores
the assessment and measurement of nonphysical attributes that define human beings …

Constructs are central to psychology. We describe two current trends as responses to
dissatisfactions with the abstract nature of constructs and with uncertain and variable …

In the natural sciences, measurement is taken as a reliable source of knowledge because it
requires a special kind of rigour. This is usually understood as an epistemic kind of rigour …

In psychology, regulation of measurement practices relies on the use of psychometric
models that relate the targeted psychological construct to a set of observations in empirical …

In 1959, Ragnar Frisch prompted Georg Rasch to formalise a separability theorem that
continues today to serve as the basis of a wide range of theoretical and applied …

Rasch measurement, despite its many advantages, has not been widely utilized in the social
sciences, likely due to diffuse adoption across disciplines and lack of an integrated, central …

The problem of the nature of probability has been drawn to the attention of the measurement
community in the comparison between the frequentist and the Bayesian views, in the …

The search for a general model/theory for measurement is a hot topic in the current debate
in measurement science. A relevant point, in this context, is to consider whether direct and …

As part of his explication of the epistemological error made in separating thinking from its
ecological context, Bateson distinguished counts from measurements. With no reference to …

Rules lie at the core of many disciplines beneath regulatory studies. Such a broad interest
inevitably comes with fragmented understandings and technical choices that hinder …