[FRIAM] Acronyms

Tue Jan 26 21:53:18 EST 2021

Oh, No Frank.  Don’t try to weasel out of your responsibility.  This is All …. Your ….. Fault!   

Please see my next post!

Nick 

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From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> On Behalf Of Frank Wimberly
Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2021 7:12 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com>
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Acronyms

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 <mailto: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

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> Nick Thompson
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> From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com <mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com> > On Behalf Of jon zingale
> Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2021 1:18 PM
> To: friam at redfish.com <mailto: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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