The footcandle-meter often disagrees sharply with an observer's assessment of brightness of illumination. The reason is that the human visual system is neither single-channelled nor additive, as is the footcandle-meter. Based on many experimental results, some of them long known, a brightness-meter showing far better agreement is described.
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Thornton et al. (1980) studied this question.
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