Re:Why psychology isn’t science (2012)
by snet0 on Sunday May 09, 2021 @05:09PM
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It is whatever the scale decides it is. A unit of mass isn't anything, either, unless you decide to use Planck units. But we have myriad units of emergent phenomena. This is just on a higher level of abstraction, and so it is harder, but I don't believe it's impossible.
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Re:Why psychology isn’t science (2012)
by systemvoltage on Sunday May 09, 2021 @05:32PM
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Typically, you'd do Measurement System Analysis (MSA)[1] which includes things like repeatability, reproducibility, drift and linearity. A standard traceable to an authority such as NIST is needed to do this.
For length, MSA can be easily conducted. For happiness, what metrology system are you going to use? What's the proposed measurement method?
[1] MSA: https://www.metrology-journal.org/articles/ijmqe/pdf/2010/02...