I argue need for limitations or "hedges" on the use of the term "measure". One such a "hedge" is my NOMINAL MEASURE.

As another, please consider my ZEROTH LAW OF MEASUREMENT: NO MEASUREMENT WITHOUT A PREDICTION! (I learned this from history.)

The Foreman of a PYRAMID CONSTRUCTION gang would often need to change the measurements of a block of stone, since pyramidal sides slope, instead of "going straight up". The Foreman would send his measurements to the Stone Mason who would have a stone cut to those specifications and delivered. The Foreman would then confirm his PREDICTION -- a stone of those measurements fit snugly in the proper place. (Think about it. Every good physical measurement FULFILLS A PREDICTION.)

ZEROTH LAW OF MEASUREMENT: NO MEASUREMENT WITHOUT A PREDICTION! This LAW disqualifies the vaunted IQ "Measure". Or do you want bet the farm on the achievement of some person, knowing only on his "IQ SCORE"?

This LAW also disqualifies THE COURSE GRADES given in precollege and college classes! I discovered this as a longtime teacher of mathematics, physics, statisics, meteorology. If a student came to me with an "A" in First Semester Calculus, I often discovered, belatedly, that the student's teacher omitted "The Mean Value Theorem" as too tedious or difficult to teach. So I had to pause for remedial teaching, to connect this knowledge with content of the course I was teaching.

Unpredictable grading coupled with ENDEMIC CHEATING in our schools and collesges explains a lot of our "educational deficit". I'm an authority of CHEATING, going back 45 years. I made cheating impossible by giving each student a different exam. Actually, same problems, but different numbers, and different orderings on each paper. (In 1969 -- during the Apollo 13 Crisis -- at The University of Maine at Orono, I gave a Statistics Final to 123 students -- each a different "peach".)

I also instituted a "tracer", comparable to the radioactive tracer medical scientists use to follow medicine or whatever through the body. I would include on all papers a problem so difficult that my faculty colleagues could not solve it, but one I'd discussed with one or two students. That problem would appear at a different position on each Exam paper. But EVERY STUDENT WOULD WRITE THE CORRECT SOLUTION TO THAT PROBLEM. (Often it was the only correct answer for some students.) Telepathy?

I didn't know how the SOLUTION was osmosing, and I didn't care. For I discounted that Problem. However, it got me in trouble with my colleagues, who realized that there could be widespread cheating on their exams, despite close monitoring. (Note that I did this "by hand". The computer would make this easy to set up and to grade. Are our teachers and professors too lazy?)

In 1963 I instituted a "total" system, which I was not able to use at other universities. I formulated "100 Standard Tasks" which you need to know to survive in our society. Students were given these 100 Standard Tasks the first day, and told they'd be examined on all of them. Using xxx, each student studied at his/her own rate, and was tutored individually. When individually ready to attempt one or more of the Standard Tasks, the student was given a different version of the given TASK. If incorrect, no mark against her/him. But it had to be done over in a new version, when "ready". Correct completion of all 100 StANDARD TASKS yielding only a "P" for "Passing". (My "Pass-Fail" system preceded that instituted in 1975 at Yale, and was more rigorous.) I did this because -- with the current teacher shortage -- a student passing my Introductory Course could walk into some high school the next day and start teaching mathematics. I couldn't risk "C" learning, or even "A" learning!

So, THE ROGUE RIGHT OF MEASURE -- banished from THE MARKET PLACE -- still thrives in our schools and colleges. That's why "Business" spends millions reteaching our graduates. LACK OF UNILOCUTION NOT ONLY HURTS OR KILLS BUT COSTS A LOT OF MONEY.

Many regulations could be turned into measurements, taking them out of the domain of Politics and Bureaucracy. On demand, any measurement process can be placed in a MICROCHIP, REPORTING TO A COMPUTER DATABASE -- downsizing many bureaucrats/corpocrats. Since a MEASURE IS UNIVALENT (at least, to within an acceptable "tolerance"), your own microchip would show the same result as the "Government", so NO SURPRISES!

THE PLEASURE OF MEASURE is a TAKEN-FOR-GRANTED BLESSING OF DAILY LIFE, allowing you to devote time, energy, momey to other matters. And I argue that you NEED A MATHMEASURE FOR DECISION-MAKING. Dig! or redig.

(Incidently, my surname "Hays" is plural for the Scottish Clan name "Hay", in turn derived from "hedge". So I've shown you "Hays' Hedges", translating as "Hedge's Hedges.)