relative vs. absolute (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mark Mandel]

On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC <
Bill.Mullins at us.army.mil> wrote:

>
> Agree fully with your last paragraph, and it is a good restatement of
> most of what
> I was trying to say.
>

I was hoping we'd get the apparent disagreement straightened out.

You may have missed my actual last para, a short coda:

Yes. If I left any impression that I thought log scales were useless, I was
> writing poorly. I meant only that in the NOIR classification, they should be
> considered a subtype of ratio scale rather than a fifth type.
>

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Mark Mandel

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