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committed to meeting those needs and expectations. Unlike self-help guides How to
Measure Anything…, it does not offer ready-for-use solutions, but rather shows the
patterns of thinking that could lead to practical solutions of specific classes of
problems.
The authors of the book Measurement Across the Sciences are affiliated at different institutions and represent complementary fields of expertise related to measurement science: Dr. Luca Mari is Professor of Measurement Science at Università
Carlo Cattaneo (Castellanza, Italy), Dr. Mark R. Wilson is Professor of Educational
Statistics and Measurement at the University of California (Berkeley, USA), and Dr.
Andrew Maul is Associate Professor of Education Science and Psychometrics at the
University of California (Santa Barbara, USA). Before writing this book, they have
been involved in a long-term collaboration aimed at making convergent the methodologies of measuring physical and nonphysical quantities. Their efforts have had not
only scientific but also organizational dimensions: through their efforts, measurements in social sciences have been incorporated into the program of activity of the
International Measurement Confederation (IMEKO). Based on the experience of
their fruitful collaboration, these highly respected scholars have produced a major
work that will be for years to come a central text in measurement science—the text
of importance for measurement philosophers, measurement theoreticians, and measurement practitioners looking for creative solutions of interdisciplinary problems.
Professor of Measurement Science
Roman Z. Morawski
Warsaw University of Technology,
Warszawa, Poland
Foreword
committed to meeting those needs and expectations. Unlike self-help guides How to
Measure Anything…, it does not offer ready-for-use solutions, but rather shows the
patterns of thinking that could lead to practical solutions of specific classes of
problems.
The authors of the book Measurement Across the Sciences are affiliated at different institutions and represent complementary fields of expertise related to measurement science: Dr. Luca Mari is Professor of Measurement Science at Università
Carlo Cattaneo (Castellanza, Italy), Dr. Mark R. Wilson is Professor of Educational
Statistics and Measurement at the University of California (Berkeley, USA), and Dr.
Andrew Maul is Associate Professor of Education Science and Psychometrics at the
University of California (Santa Barbara, USA). Before writing this book, they have
been involved in a long-term collaboration aimed at making convergent the methodologies of measuring physical and nonphysical quantities. Their efforts have had not
only scientific but also organizational dimensions: through their efforts, measurements in social sciences have been incorporated into the program of activity of the
International Measurement Confederation (IMEKO). Based on the experience of
their fruitful collaboration, these highly respected scholars have produced a major
work that will be for years to come a central text in measurement science—the text
of importance for measurement philosophers, measurement theoreticians, and measurement practitioners looking for creative solutions of interdisciplinary problems.
Professor of Measurement Science
Roman Z. Morawski
Warsaw University of Technology,
Warszawa, Poland
Foreword