Volume 2 – Handbook #II: Glossary & “Terms of Art” Definitions – Page 6
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Volume 2 – Handbook #II: Glossary & “Terms of Art” Definitions – Page 6
Dispersion
- Statistical “Dispersion”, also called spread, scatter, and variability, refers to the flatness, or the peakedness of a distribution.
Distribution
- Ordering the frequencies of observations from sample data reveals shapes called “Distributions”.
Domain of Knowledge
- One of the eight levels of analysis in the Template for Reading Research Papers: (i) Author’s“Perspective”, (ii) Scientific “Domain”, (iii) “Historical Lineage”, (iv) “Purpose”, (v) “Methodology”, (vi) “Methods”, (vii) “Axioms, Assumptions & Hypotheses”, and (viii) “Meaning”.
Dominance Hierarchies
- Expression from Jordan Peterson’s book “12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos” that points out the structural challenges to making good individual, business, or investment decisions in the presence of “Bosses, Experts, or Authorities”.
Doubt
- One to the two components of “Uncertainty”. In his book “Willful Ignorance”, Herbert Weisberg shows that “Statisticians” quantify the collective “Doubt” dimension of uncertainty (i.e. the evidence of the average), and that “Clinicians” resolve the individual “Ambiguity” dimension of “Uncertainty”.
- Current statistical norms to measure quantiative doubt favor the upwardly-biased “Ensemble Average”, but Ole Peters showed that individuals experience the “Variance”-corrected “Time Average”.
Ecological Rationality
- Expression developed by Gerg Gigerenzer, based on Herbert Simon’s “Scissors”, to express the necessary consideration of the interplay between the the “Decision-Maker” and the “Task Environment” in order to make good individual, business, or investment decisions.
Effect
- Statistical term meaning: (i) Main effect: The impact of an independent variable on the dependent variable, ignoring the impact of other variables, or (ii), Secondary effects: The interactions, as well as direct impacts from confounding variables.
Embodied Intelligence
- Expression used in these workbooks to contrast organic intelligence, e.g. “Heuristics”, based on “Predictions” influenced by emotions in the management of a body’s “Motions”vs. disembodied “AI/ML” computer programs that fit multidimensional functions to the data.
Embodied Perceptions
- In his 2020 book with Drake Baer, titled “Perception: How Our Bodies Shape Our Mind”, Dennis Proffitt shows that “Perceptions” change based on embodied “Observations” such as changing the weight of a back-pack changes the perceived steepness of the slope of a hill. The higher the weight on the body, the steeper the visualized slope.
Embodied Psychology
- Expression created by Richard Strozzi-Heckler to describe his wholistic approach to psychology. Meaning and healing emerge at the embodied scale of a human being.
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