>wew you think you can MEASURE temperature and put it down to ONE NUMBER?!?!?!? scientism! reducionist! materialist!
Before thermometers: philosophers mocked the idea of temperature ever being measurable, with all its nuance, complexity and subjectivitypic.twitter.com/lPi1GfXWcr
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Where does this come from?
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Bias in Mental Testing, Arthur Jensen, 1980. It's on libgen.
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Two people can be sitting in the same room and have wildly different perceptions of the temperature
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Just because they believed that subjective temperature was unmeasurable, they pretty clearly believed in objective temperature w/r/t Caves
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There is reductionism occurring. We are measuring something. Not necessarily people's experience of temperature, as the passage describes.
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a) wasn't only about that b) "subjective temperature" estimates are given in weather forecasts, based on wind currents, humidity etc.
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@SilverVVulpes@marc_rr this shows how measurable quantities are theory ladenThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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