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  1. 10/x Thanks for reading in case you made it this far.

    I noticed that I forgot speakers' affiliations in some of the posts, so please find here again the abstract.

    And once again links to the book
    global.oup.com/academic/produc

    and the book review:
    rdcu.be/dXACh

    #HRQL #ISOQOL #PhilosophyOfScience #PatientCentered

  2. 7/x Leah took the last straw the audience was holding on to:

    No, even when thinking about clocks and time, ongoing coordination is an issue. There is no #GoldStandard for time, its #measurement is under constant development.

    #PhilosophyOfScience #ISOQOL

  3. 2/x We had a good panel of presenters.

    Melanie Hawkins (Swinburn UT) opened the session with a discussion of how values and assumptions impact on interpretations of scores in application contexts, and how this may reinforce and exacerbate societal inequities.

    #PhilosophyOfScience #Measurement #HRQL #ISOQOL

  4. #astrophysicist #MattODowd expresses concerns that "physics is stalled" — see our toot from 28 Aug 2024. Is our best out-of-the-box thinking and experimentation being impeded by #cognitive #biases? The animated video targets safety issues in the workplace, but, is scientific creativity also suffering from a reluctance to deviate from, or institutional pressure to continue in, one's familiar lane, when the future resides in other lanes of inquiry? How can one know? #PhilosophyOfScience