Quite often you have the possibility to go for a standard or to avoid doing so. If everyone would just go with the official standard that weeks begin with Mondays, distance is measured in meter and mass get’s measured in kg, that would be progress. Getting all those people who derivative for the standard to change their behavior is difficult.
If you really like standardization read a few ISO standards that touch domains in which you publish information.
If you really like standardization read a few ISO standards that touch domains in which you publish information.
Funny you should mention that. Laboratory courses in physics at my uni are known for enforcing arbitrary seeming rules where the TAs are sometimes unable to agree on what exactly those rules are. This is despite the fact that there are standards published by the national standards organisation concerning how to write down experimental data and how to properly deal with measurement errors. Which I can’t acces for free through my uni.
Quite often you have the possibility to go for a standard or to avoid doing so. If everyone would just go with the official standard that weeks begin with Mondays, distance is measured in meter and mass get’s measured in kg, that would be progress. Getting all those people who derivative for the standard to change their behavior is difficult.
If you really like standardization read a few ISO standards that touch domains in which you publish information.
Funny you should mention that. Laboratory courses in physics at my uni are known for enforcing arbitrary seeming rules where the TAs are sometimes unable to agree on what exactly those rules are. This is despite the fact that there are standards published by the national standards organisation concerning how to write down experimental data and how to properly deal with measurement errors. Which I can’t acces for free through my uni.
Standards often are arbitrary and not only seem to be that way.
But at least they are formalised and written down. In that damned course they are not.