It's not so easy to gain the true measure of things
- Written by Cris Brack, Associate professor in forest measurement and management, Australian National University
Some things are just tricky to measure.Flickr/Patty O'Hearn Kickham, CC BY
I teach measurement – the quantification of things. Some people think this is the most objective of the sciences; just numbers and observations, or what many people call objective facts.
Lord Kelvin, a famous British scientist, said:
When you can measure what you are...
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