Does Measurement Measure Up?: How Numbers Reveal and Conceal the Truth

A critical perspective of how measurements have come to affect our lives—from reasonable doubt to No Child Left Behind.

There was once a time when we could not measure sound, color, blood pressure, or even time. We now find ourselves in the throes of a measurement revolution, from the laboratory to the sports arena, from the classroom to the courtroom, from a strand of DNA to the far reaches of outer space. Measurement controls our lives at work, at school, at home, and even at play. But doe...