Preface

This handbook is an expansion, revision, and hopefully an improvement on Measuring Merit, bits and pieces of which I had been working on for some years, and which came to a completed form in 2005. I say a completed form because as soon as I spiral-bound a draft copy for use in workshops, I wanted to make changes. The first change I wanted to make was to split the book into two parts, one being narrative, and the other computational and technical. The motivation for the split is that many users had no interest­—make that a strong disinterest­—in being burdened with mathematical details. It was boring to them and they had no intention of personally using the detailed computational information. They wanted mostly a conceptual grounding ...

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