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Add Type or Category to LevelOfMeasurement #139
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To avoid an extra |
Maybe another name than |
Well https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative also calls it "Numerical data", but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Level_of_measurement#Overview talks about quantitative vs. qualitative, so it being mostly meta information there's no harm with a name like |
In my understanding, we have:
Qualitative information are defined as "qualities that are descriptive, subjective or difficult to measure." One could argue that opinion "measurements" like "completely agree, mostly agree, mostly disagree, completely disagree" could fall in this category and classify Given that the classification of But before this discussion, I would like to know, what is the problem that we are trying to solve by providing a qualitative versus quantitative classification? |
It describes how Steven's categorization grouped them as also described in Wikipedia. The |
It describes a categorization, yes, but this categorization may not fit all needs (different peoples may have different interpretation of |
Renaming it from |
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Some systems also merge |
I agree that we can never make it right for everyone, which is why a safe approach is to not introduce concepts that we don't need. The introduction of |
JSR 363 has already been used a lot in areas like Big Data, Analytics, etc. So this flag (with no overhead in the size) helps for decision making whether some data points can be used for certain purposes or not. |
The overhead is size is not my concern. My concern is whether this flag is relevant. I don't think However |
Ok, then let's rename it to avoid misunderstandings. The JavaDoc may and should still explain, that the flag is "related" to the category of measurement level aka what it stands for, but if this name is more neutral, sure. |
Some
LevelOfMeasurement
entries are Quantitative, while others are Qualitative, see https://www.thoughtco.com/definition-of-qualitative-data-3126330.We may want to distinguish those two types while not removing those that are qualitative. As with the
Unit
, which can also be used independent from theQuantity
type itself (not subtypes likeDimensionless
,Mass
, etc.)The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: