Volume 2 – Handbook #II: Glossary & “Terms of Art” Definitions – Page 18
For new readers:
- Please read the “Pinned Post” at the top of this Substack’s Home Page, and titled Why Use Public Peer-Review to Write a Book? - “See for Yourself”.
For returning readers & subscribers:
- This material started with writing CTRI Membership Notes that led to writing book pages on Substack, based on personal reading notes of foundational books & papers. Writing the Membership Notes led to the formalization of The Template of Reading Research Papers. Using the template led to collecting specific definitions for key words, the “Terms-of-Art”, that would otherwise remain ambiguous for the readers given other possible uses of these words in common language. Finally, using the template led to writing Author Profiles to place the foundational sources for the “Terms-of-Art” in a greater context than possible with short glossary definitions. This work formalizes a conceptual map of the experience of the territory perceived by the writer. It also provides “Tools, Checklists & Processes” for readers to create their own conceptual map based on the experience of their own territory. What do you use to make your own in-context (See “Ecological Rationality”) evaluations, and “Predictions” about the GPS-like directions we receive from experts, authorities, and other “Coercive Utopians”?
This post returns to writing glossary definition, and presents Page 18 for the “Terms-of-Art” definitions as shown below:
Volume 2 – Handbook #II: Glossary & “Terms of Art” Definitions – Page 18
Skill (Challenge)
- Mihali Csikszentmihalyi’s axes – level of skill vs. level of challenge - for the quantitative measurement of eight states of individual experience derived from using individual attention, including the state of “Flow”, thus providing a reproducible mapping of “Ecological Rationality”.
Skill-luck Continuum
- Expression developed by Michael Mauboussin in his 2012 book “The Success Equation”, to rank human activities, ranging from sports, to business, and investments, on a scale from mostly random, to mostly luck. According to Mauboussin, investing may be an activity mostly influenced by luck (60%).
Slow Randomness (Mild, Slow & Wild Randomness)
- See “Randomness”
Small Worlds
- Expression developed by Jimmie Leonard Savage to specify the valid application of the “Tools” from the Logic & Statistics Program to “Task Environments” that match the “Axioms, Assumptions & Hypotheses” of “Rational” decision-making.
Specificity
- Applies to “Hypothesis Testing” as well as “Classification”, the making of correct inferences with true negatives.
Spinach & Iron
- Popular urban myth examined by Michael Sutton in his 2010 paper “Spinach, Popeye, and Iron”, further examined in his 2016 paper “The Spinach, Popeye, Iron, Decimal Error Myth is Finally Busted”, and used in this book as a metaphor to describe false but widely held “Beliefs” created by “Word Magic”, and “Number Magic”. See also “Willful Ignorance, Error & Deceit”.
Statistical Doubt
- Applies to the “Statistician”’ that works with averages of samples & populations. Herbert Weisberg contrasts the quantified “Doubt” of the “Statistician”- based on “Averages” - with the personal judgment of the “Clinician” – based on working with individual “Ambiguity”.
Statistical Significance
- Element of the Statistical Meaning matrix in the Template for Reading Research Papers, and answer to the question: “Are the results not likely due to chance, luck, or randomness?”
Stupid (the)
- One of the four types of people in Carlo Cipolla’s essay “The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity”. This label of “Stupid” defines individuals whose behavior damages themselves and damages others, thus placing them in the lower-left quadrant of Cipolla’s chart.
Supervised Training
- “AI/ML” deep-learning “Methodology”: “Inductive Inference” learning by example.
Suppression
- Expression used in the enhanced-Boyd “OODA-Loop” developed for these Workbooks, Handbooks & Notebooks to represent the attention-prioritizing effect of emotions in the “Orient” step, as contrasted with its opposite: “Amplification”.
- Second stage, after “Perceptions”, in Rodolfo Llinás’ functional architecture of the “Brain”: Emotions amplify or suppress the importance of “Perceptions” in the process of making “Predictions” to manage “Motions”.
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