The other reason the bipole source is vertical is because the tilt angle of the bipole source need not be measured: the measurement would be logistically complicated.
These unconscious (conceptual) aspects of research use are not directly measured in SAGE, although arguably such measurement would be very hard to do so in practice.
Use of umbilical blood gases as a measurement would be a more objective indicator for infant well-being, but missing data could be a challenge as a test of umbilical blood gases is not routinely used in all birth settings.
For example, if you measured an object that was 10cm plus 8mm, your measurement would be 10.8cm.
"Any measurement would be interesting because we know essentially nothing about it," Dr. Hangst said.
If Handsteiner's starlight happened instead to be blue, then the other type of measurement would be performed.
This quantitative measurement would be a tool similar to the department's vaunted Compstat process, in which weekly crime statistics are used to measure the performance of police supervisors.
Measurement would be made by a device already in use for some 150 years: the surveyor's chain, 66 feet long and 80 chains to the mile.
The measurement would be based on a geographic area as small as a county, as the unions wanted, instead of an across-the-board number, as the company wanted.
Another critical measurement would be the percentage of certain types of cases that get thrown out after a defined period of time, a possible indicator of inefficiency as well as disregard for traditionally under-prosecuted crimes.
For example, there is no number among integers and fractions that equals the square root of 2. A counterpart problem in measurement would be to find the length of the diagonal of a square whose side is one unit long; there is no subdivision of the unit length that will divide evenly into the length of the diagonal.
