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"Testing - One, Two, Three ... Testing!": Toward a Sociology of Testing

Trevor Pinch

Cornell University

This article explores testing as research site in the sociology of technology. A fully generalizable analysis is offered of testing in terms of a notion of projection. Prospective, current, and retrospective testing are identified The article is illustrated with examples of testing a clinical budgeting system in the United Kingdom National Health Service and the testing of the O-rings on the space shuttle Challenger. Lastly, the theme of "testing the user" is developed Some comments are offered on the pervasiveness of testing in society at large.

Science, Technology & Human Values, Vol. 18, No. 1, 25-41 (1993)
DOI: 10.1177/016224399301800103
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