Concepts (page 29)
- Root Cause vs Proximate Cause
Root cause against proximate cause is one of this publication's working analytical tools, and it comes to us from Nir Eyal's Indistractable, where the whole book is built on it: the thing that…
- Rosy Retrospection
Rosy retrospection is the tendency to remember an experience more favourably than it was rated while it was happening. Terence Mitchell, Leigh Thompson, Erika Peterson and Randy Cronk established it…
- Rumination
Rumination is Susan Nolen-Hoeksema's construct for what a person does when they meet a low mood by dwelling on it instead of acting. The situation gets turned over repeatedly against a standard that…
- Rumination-Focused CBT
Rumination-focused cognitive behavioural therapy is a version of CBT built to attack the habit of ruminating rather than the content of any particular thought. It works on the move from the brooding…
- Sales Diversity
Sales diversity is how widely a market's purchases are spread across the products on offer. Recommenders can raise the variety each shopper buys while lowering it for the market as a whole, because…
- Salience Network
The salience network is a brain network centred on the anterior insula and the dorsal anterior cingulate that triages incoming stimuli and decides which deserve attention. It was named by William…
- Sample Size Neglect
An average from four ratings and an average from nine hundred are read as the same kind of fact. It is the most consequential misreading on any review page.
- Satiety Index
The satiety index is a ranking of how filling different foods are, built by serving people equal amounts of energy from each and asking them how full they feel over the following two hours. It was…
- Scarcity Effect
Unavailability raises desirability, and the reason for the unavailability decides how much. Scarcity caused by other people wanting the thing works harder than scarcity caused by anything else.
- Screen Inferiority
Screen inferiority is the small but consistent advantage paper holds over screens on reading comprehension. Pablo Delgado, Cristina Vargas, Rakefet Ackerman and Ladislao Salmerón pooled 54 studies…
- Scriptura Continua
Scriptura continua is writing without spaces between words, the norm in Greek and Latin antiquity. Reading it was a decoding task rather than a fluent one, which is why reading aloud was standard…
- Self-Adjudicated Dispute
A self-adjudicated dispute is one of this publication's own analytical tools. It names the move in which an author acknowledges that a claim is contested and then resolves the contest by citing the…