We live in an age of metrics. All around us, things are being standardized, quantified, measured.rnScholars concerned with the work of science and technology must regard this asrna fascinating and crucial practical, cultural and intellectual phenomenon. Analysis of thernroots and meaning of metrics and metrology has been a preoccupation of much of the bestrnwork in our field for the past quarter century at least. As practitioners of the interconnectedrndisciplines that make up the field of science studies, we understand how significant, contingentrnand uncertain can be the process of rendering nature and society in grades, classes andrnnumbers.
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