In one scene, a scientific expert for the plaintiffs tells him that one measurement of groundwater contamination was not as strong as he had thought.
Clay Johnson: Step one is measurement.
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Current regulations mean draught beer must be sold in pints (equivalent to 568ml), halves (284ml) or the little-known one-third measurement.
But it does appear that, at least at the margin and by one method of measurement, that it is true.
And it seems that neither he nor any of his advisers actually understood this point at all: that what he was going to do, the tens of billions of dollars he would spend, would not move his preferred measurement by one single fraction of anything.
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One standard deviation is a good measurement to use.
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"There are four systems in nature that oscillate, and this is the last one where a single-channel measurement has crossed the five-sigma threshold - we know now about mixing in all four of these systems, " he told BBC News.
One was the world of statistics, measurement, rigor and process: an appealing array of tools that, in isolation, promised control and predictable outcomes.
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And so on, for everything you can think of that might mess up your measurement of the effect of one thing on well-being, rather than another.
Some will say that an 8% traffic increase in one area is significant, particularly as the measurement period was straight after the scrapping of the scheme.
That is one of the conclusions drawn by researchers at Media Measurement Ltd, a London based social media analysis company who undertook an initial review of social media commentary on the verdict for me.
As a consequence of this additional uncertainty, if the quantum demon makes a measurement of a nucleus which forces it to choose one state or the other, he is creating new information.
The one concern that caught my attention, however, is the critical issue of measurement of social impact and its link to investor returns.
The decision to bring the shuttle down came after one of the orbiter's three key navigation tools -- an inertial measurement unit -- stopped working.
One drawback of this is the perception that accounting standards will be as much a product of politics as of financial measurement.
The volume of data in one of these alternative data streams is a function of granularity (number of measurements) and intensity (bits per measurement).
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