Volume 2 – Handbook #II: Glossary & “Terms of Art” Definitions – Page 3
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Volume 2 – Handbook #II: Glossary & “Terms of Art” Definitions – Page 3
Business Ecosystem Template (BET)
- CTRI’s application of Tim Garrett’s insights about the economy as a flow of energy. The BET maps the flow of energy against the flow to time to identify nine specific types of business ecosystem participants.
Categorical Data
- Data gathered by type of data (labels), such as age, gender, etc. See also “Continuous Data”, “Retrospective Data”, and “Randomized Trial Data”.
Certainty
- Element of the “Statistical Meaning” matrix, and answer to the question: Are the research’s results established as true, or inevitable?
Challenge (vs. Skill)
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi measured different types of individual experiences derived from using individual attention in the performance of specific tasks, and then mapped these measurements on a chart scoring individual “Skill” on the X-axis, and task “Challenge” on the Y-axis.
Chances
- An early, historical “Small Worlds” mathematical “Tools” describing the likelihood inherent to the structure of a system with known states-of-the-world, and with known frequencies such as the game of dice.
Checklist (for Pattern-Matching)
- Description of decision-making devices that match the structure of “Task Environments” related to the “Middle-Muddle” in the enhanced Cipolla-chart described in Volume 1 – Workbook #I: Our Shared Humanity.
Classical Probabilities (Classical, Frequentist, Subjective/Bayesian, Propensity)
- See “Terms-of-Art” Definition for “Probabilities”
Classification
- Data manipulation methodology that positions elements on a map. See also “Terms-of-Art” definitions for “Regression” as well as “Meaning”.
Client-centric Planning
- One of the three braids in the “Historical Lineage” timeline from Volume 1 – Workbook #IV – Making Good Investment Decisions.
Clinician [and Clinical Ambiguity]
- A “Clinician” diagnoses individual situations by abstracting plausibly true models from concrete but ambiguous ecologies of underlying exposures, risks, and rewards.
- “Clinician” represents one of two types of researchers identified by Herbert Weisberg in his book titled “Willful Ignorance”: (i) The Clinician focuses on Individual “Clinical Ambiguities”, and (ii) The Statistician quantifies doubt about effects based on sample group averages. See also “Terms-of-Art” definitions for “Statistical Doubt”.
Coherence
- An array of wagers proves coherent when it does not expose the gambler to a certain loss.
- An Element of the Statistical Meaning matrix in CTRI’s Template for Reading Research Papers, and the answer to the questions: Is the design to the research study logical, and orderly? Is there a consistent relationship between the parts of the study?
Competence (Super, Summit, and Pseudo)
- Expression, and variations presented by Laurence J. Peter in his 1969 book titled “The Peter Principle” to describe the types of competence observed in bureaucracies.
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