
doi: 10.1086/296097
Two points touched upon in the Madansky paper (this issue) could use elaboration, and a third point needs to be introduced. The first point is sufficiently obvious to those who work on the theoretical aspects of measurement theory, but perhaps it is not so obvious to those with applied proclivities.
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