Topic
processo de atribuir quantidades a objetos ou eventos
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Medição é a quantificação de atributos de um objeto ou evento, que pode ser usada para comparar com outros objetos ou eventos. Em outras palavras, medição é um processo de determinar quão grande ou pequeno uma quantidade física é em comparação com uma quantidade de referência básica do mesmo tipo.
“I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I'll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it. The wilder and more ridiculous something is, however, the firmer and more solid the evidence will have to be.”
“You can't control what you can't measure”
“Advancement of the human factor in industry... varies so much that unless we use measurement and abide by the results, there is no possibility of repeating the process accurately and efficiently at will, or of predicting and controlling the future conditions that assure that advancement.”
“It is also very difficult to understand the effectiveness of our actions without measurements.”
“The ultimate measurement is effectiveness, not efficiency.”
“As soon as we venture on the paths of the physicist, we learn to weigh and measure, to deal with time and space and mass and their related concepts, and to find more and more our knowledge expressed and our needs satisfied through the concept of number, as in the dreams of Plato and Pythagoras.”
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