At a meeting of the Physical Society of London in 1925 participants expressed their concerns regarding a recent suggestion by the Australian physicist T. H. Laby for replicating the established value of the mechanical equivalent of heat. This rather controversial discussion about the value of redetermining this numerical fact brings to light different understandings of the moral economy of accuracy in scientific work; it signals a distinctive new stage in the historical understanding of accuracy and precision and the moral integrity in conducting research.

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什么时候够？测量准确，科研诚信

在 1925 年伦敦物理学会的一次会议上，与会者表达了他们对澳大利亚物理学家 TH Laby 最近提出的复制热力学当量的既定值的建议的担忧。关于重新确定这一数字事实的价值的这一颇有争议的讨论揭示了对科学工作准确性的道德经济学的不同理解；它标志着对准确性和精确性以及进行研究的道德操守的历史理解进入了一个独特的新阶段。