Sensory modalities exhibit a characteristic known as Weber's ratio which remarks that when two stimuli are compared for a difference: (1) there is some minimal nonzero difference which can be differentiated and (2) this minimal difference is a nearly constant proportion of the magnitude of the stimuli. Both of these would, in a typical measurement context, appear to be system defects. We have found through simulation explorations that in fact these are apparently the characteristics required by a system designed to extract an adequate amount of information from an incomplete observation data set according to a new approach to measurement.
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