Meanings
nounquantomania (uncountable)
- uncountableA focus on countable, measurable entities to the exclusion of other factors.
“A kind of quantomania prevails in the assessment of technologies,” Dr. Hoos wrote in 1979 in the journal Technological Forecasting and Social Change. “What cannot be counted simply doesn’t count, and so we systematically ignore large and important areas of concern.”
2007 May 5, Katie Hafner, “Ida R. Hoos Is Dead at 94; a Critic of Systems Analysis”, in New York Times
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