Measurement to improve scientific productivity: a reflection on the Brown report

Article Abstract:

An interpretation of the Report of the Task Force on the Health of Research, or the Brown Report, is presented. The report highlights the viability of the US to translate scientific and technological advances into concrete societal gains compared with other countries. It is viewed as a call for the US to start considering ways on how to measure research output as well as input. Such a measurement system can help improve scientific productivity.

United States, Management, Reports, Research, Science and technology policy, Science and state, Science policy

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Further comments on the 'nonrevolution' arising from axiomatic measurement theory

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The alleged failure of axiomatic measurement theory (AMT) to revolutionize cognitive psychology and psychometrics is clarified. AMT is shown to be more widely applied than is currently thought. Its limited impact in psychometrics is attributed to the lack of a qualitative theory of randomness. In cognitive psychology, AMT has little influence because of the field's limited concern with structural relations among variables.

Analysis, Axiomatic set theory

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