″The Pain Scale,″ raises the question of what it means to measure things. What is a Scale? What does it mean to measure something?

Bliss`s essay, ″The Pain Scale,″ raises the question of what it means to measure things. What is a Scale? What does it mean to measure something? To define? To organize? To rank or rate? On a common sense level, these terms are easy to use and easy to understand, yet Bliss wants to argue that such simplicity is deceiving.