Rebecca Jackson, PhD

1960s clipboard with Apgar Timer and paper showing Apgar measures.

New publication! Our v. own @beccajackson.bsky.social discusses the racial history of the Apgar Score – a score assigned to infants one minute after birth. Find out more: medhumsplatform.org/the-apgar-sc...

Congratulations Megan!!!!

Welcoming Rebecca Jackson: New Postdoctoral Research Associate Read our interview with Rebecca Jackson, previously a Bridging Fellow and now a PDRA in the Affective Experience and the Measurement Lab.

Welcome and congratulations to @beccajackson.bsky.social, who joins us as a Postdoctoral Research Associate 🥳 Rebecca was previously a Bridging Fellow, and we are excited to continue working with her.

Read about her upcoming work in this written interview 👇
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Huge congratulations to my dear & brilliant friend Sebastian on his thesis defence today, "Values in psychosocial measurement". It's been a privilege to be a part of this journey, Dr. Duque! 🤍 #philsci @erantal.bsky.social

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Weighing in at 827 pages and 2 1/4 inches, our Oxford Handbook of American and British Women Philosophers in the 19th Century is HERE! Huge thanks to @oupphilosophy.bsky.social and our 50+ authors. Restoring women to the philosophical canon is a matter of justice, but it is also better scholarship!

I’m interested!

Join us for this free online event to discuss the meaning, limits, and prospects of assigning numbers to the social and natural world. All online with free registration. #philsci #philsky #histsci #sts #histtech #sociology

Thanks Alisa!!

Do you love socio-material approaches to reproductive history? Come check out the special issue of Bulletin of the History of Medicine I’m in. My paper is on the history of centimeters as a unit for measuring cervical dilation.

Very borb. Much bun. 😍

💛💛💛 I can’t believe you remember that!! I still remember the first talk you gave at the department. We were so excited when we found out you were coming to IU. They are lucky to have you!

Preparing next week in our interdisciplinary #ProfDoc programme:

"...without being completely obsolete, the qualitative versus quantitative binary is largely overrated and does not deserve to organise curricula, research programmes, and academic fields in such an extensive way"

#DundeeUni #RD62001

Beyond well-deserved!!! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Congratulations Kevin!!! Well-deserved and important work.

Getting ready for @beccajackson.bsky.social 's talk at our School. Activating all the brain cells ☕😅
#Cofaidh #Coffee #PhilSky #Psychometrics #Measurement

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🏆 Delighted to share that Measurement Lab researcher @beccajackson.bsky.social & co-author Michele Luchetti have been named IUHPST Essay Prize runners-up for their essay on 'History & Philosophy of Measurement: Past, Present & Future Integrations'!

Find out more: t.co/7ikOij78Qb

Congratulations to Dubian Cañas & runners-up Rebecca Jackson @beccajackson.bsky.social and Michele Luchetti for their essay “History and Philosophy of Measurement: Past, Present, and Future Integrations.” #HPS

Thanks, @frabellazzi.bsky.social, for co-organizing a great multidisciplinary workshop on Scale and Measurement at the Center for Philosophy and the Sciences at the University of Oslo. Here's a picture from @beccajackson.bsky.social 's talk on the Apgar Score and "Construct Realization".

Last week us&CPS organised a great workshop on “ScaM: scales and measurement in the sciences”. We kicked off with some group work and ended up with a panel discussion. Thanks to all the attendees and speakers! @federicabocchi.bsky.social @beccajackson.bsky.social @uio.no

Speaker at a lectern in front of a screen showing a slide with the title "Range: Philosophical Considerations" Scale range is: Normative (sets the stage for what is “normal,” versus in need of intervention) Ethically consequential (for participants, for society, for policy) Determining range (including avoiding ceiling effects and floor effects) is not just a neutral exercise in statistical due-diligence. We must think about the impacts of this choice.

9/x Rebecca Jackson honed in on the problem of the meaning of measurement "units" in #SocialSciences.

Although not dissimilar to other areas of measurement, it is important to remember how many steps are necessary to establish that the units can be meaningfully interpreted.

#PhilSky #Validity

Person talking in front of a slide that shows the heading "Time: No Gold Standard" and describes under it in some brief texts and pictures of atomic clocks how processes of ongoing coordination could be seen in this space.

7/x Leah took the last straw the audience was holding on to:

No, even when thinking about clocks and time, ongoing coordination is an issue. There is no #GoldStandard for time, its #measurement is under constant development.

#PhilSky #ISOQOL

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6/x @ricksawatzky.bsky.social's recorded input focused on #Exchangeablility and discussed how the term #PatientCentered measurement may relate to ideographic and nomothetic methods.

You can find out more about Rick's work here:
healthyqol.com/about-ephm

#PhilSky #ISOQOL

Screenshot of a slide with the title "How does this matter to HRQL research and practice?" Expecting discussions about values and assumptions, offers the opportunity for constructive failure. Identifying limits of the solution one is working on: Building a dialogue with the goal of "understanding (3rd mode)" will not result in 100% agreement on content, purposes, use cases etc for an instrument, but a tool with a clearly defined purpose, context of use, and limitations.

4/x One of the core ideas for me is the notion of aiming for an #EpistemicDialogue as an approach to understand and meaningfully integrate the positions of different stakeholders, enabling us to "foreground and examine our own assumptions and values."

#Measurement #Gadamer #PatientCentered #PhilSky

Speaker behind a lectern and in front of a screen showing a slide with the title "Ongoing Coordination" making four points: To ground our inferences about how to interpret and use measures we need to coordinate instruments with the constructs we are trying to understand. Coordination is the activity of establishing the link between our instruments and the constructs they purport to measure. In measurement, it is an inherently circular activity: we can only test our understanding of a property, like temperature, through the very instruments we designed based on that understanding – thermometers. How can we make the circle virtuous rather than vicious if our values and assumptions are inherently mixed in?

3/x Sebastian Rodriguez Duque (McGill U) discussed "ongoing coordination", i.e. the process how we establish a link btw our instruments and the constructs they purport to measure.

One of the points of modern validity theory is, that this process essentially never ends.

#Measurement #HRQL #PhilSky

Presenter standing at a lectern, speaking to a slide with one sentence on it: "But the choice of scale range might influence beliefs about health"

8/x The last chapter focuses on the contexts of use of #HRQL measures (e.g., #FDA, agencies, #PatientCentered initiatives). Kevin Weinfurt (👇) and Rebecca Jackson discussed how even the often ignored response options reflect assumptions of how we want to represent what we are measuring!

#PhilSky

Someone standing behind a lectern and presenting a slide titled "Two injustices", which presents two flow charts next to each other. The one on the left focuses on "Hermeneutic marginalization" when people's testimony is not taken seriously and integrated into the development of an instrument. The one on the right focuses on "Misrepresentation", when instruments are presented as voicing patients' / people's concerns and views, but they were not included, which leads to an even stronger silencing of those voices/ positions.

5/x Alessandra Basso (LSE) highlighted hermeneutic marginalisation and misrepresentation as injustices 👇

An important question the book raises is how to elicit and integrate all voices and still recognising that all positions are fallible. #Epistemology

#Measurement #HRQL #PhilSky #PatientCentered

1/x It was great fun to co-organise the #ISOQOL discussion of Leah McClimans' book
" #PatientCentered #Measurement: Perspectives from philosophy and health-related quality of life"
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You can read the book review by Sebastian Rodriguez Duque here:
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#HRQL

I miss having a fireplace so much. 🥰 It really helps one get through the winter months 🔥 🥃 🥶

Next special topics course syllabus:
Pirate Activism: Philosophy in Practice 😜
Readings: TBE (To Be Emancipated)

@smellosopher.bsky.social Seems like you would enjoy this piece… A taxonomy of Science Journal Editors. Sent to me by, yes, a science journal editor.

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