[FRIAM] Acronyms

[Frank Wimberly]

Wow.  I was just suggesting that people write, "They gave me the MMPI
(Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory) when I applied for a job at
the CIA."  Or "I looked in the DSM-V (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of
Mental Disorders, Version 5) to see whether I agreed that Trump is a
sociopath."

I hope the broader discussion has been constructive for the group.

On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 5:44 PM Steve Smith <sasmyth at swcp.com> wrote:

>
> > Jon,
> >
> > On the whole I agree.  But I can't help wondering if we would be a lot
> > smarter if we heard from more of them.
> >
> > n
>
> I have always felt (mildly) impoverished by the participation to
> subscription ratio here.  It is very hard for me to believe that the
> fairly small (by percentage) cohort of regular contributors is so
> wyckedly smart and has "the pulse" so well that the remainder (>90%) of
> the lurking subset is truly just an "audience" for our random
> bloviations.   I even *sometimes* want to try to understand whether if I
> did a solid STFU, if that might actually leave room for 1 or more
> lurkers to pitch in?  Probably not on the first round  or two (what is
> the FriAM cycle... minutes, hours, days, variable?) but over time my
> withdrawal or absence might leave room for someone else?   I think there
> is a term for this in model/sensitivity analysis, but it eludes me right
> now.... essentially *removing* an assumed dominate variable/signal to
> see how everything else correlates in it's absence?
>
> Maybe this bent thread might inspire a few lurkers to weigh in?
>
> I appreciate Jon's reference to a Pareto distribution frontier  to
> describe the envelope to the "ragged edge" of insider/exclusive vs
> outsider/inclusive terminology.
>
> I personally enjoy what feels more to me like listening in on a
> semi-private conversation held pairwise or a small group where the
> jargon is specific enough to make me an outsider but the general tenor
> or subject draws me in.   I understand that *some* might want every
> little subgroup in a cocktail party to "just stop talking" if A) they
> don't know what they are talking about, or B) they they think they know
> and don't want to be left out, but are in another conversation and/or
> don't have the reserved lexicon mastered, and want more explication.
>
> Carry On!
>
>  - Steve
>
>
> >
> > Nick Thompson
> > ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com
> > https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> On Behalf Of jon zingale
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2021 1:18 PM
> > To: friam at redfish.com
> > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Acronyms
> >
> > I am not sure that it is all that helpful to point out, but I will point
> out
> > that we don't come at all close to even hearing from the majority of us
> let
> > alone knowing what the majority of us thinks or is familiar with.
> > Contributions on this forum likely follow some kind of Pareto
> distribution.
> > What sense would it make to target either an imagined mean or the
> > contributing one-percenters? I cannot help but feel that one ought to be
> > free to write what it is that compels them and to leave the analysis to
> the
> > critics.
> >
> >
> >
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