Sentences with phrase «as heuristic»

Standardized coefficients for illustration purposes only as Hayes has proposed that standardizing variables for the MEDIATE analyses as we did for this table does not result in accurate confidence interval estimates; we report them as a heuristic to understand the magnitude of effects, simply based on significance testing done with unstandardized variables

The Uninvited - Invited Guest and Couples Treatment for Substance Abuse My suggestion is that the metaphor of substance abuse as the uninvited - invited guest be used as a heuristic tool in both the deconstruction of the effects of substance abuse and in the reconstruction of the relationship.

Even something as basic Wikithing states this quite clearly, saying «In science, Occam's razor is used as an heuristic guide in the development of theoretical models, rather than as a rigorous arbiter between candidate models.»

Are you simply fitting sinusoidal functions and using that as a heuristic?

The IF was used on these threads as an heuristic device to enable understanding of the role of uncertainty in scientific problems where there are «conflicting certainties» and expert assessments of confidence levels.

Thus, consistent with other recent research, this study found that when in doubt about scientific facts, people are likely to use consensus among domain experts as a heuristic to guide their beliefs and behavior [15].

A logical fallacy is not necessarily a Bayesian fallacy [3], so given a particular circumstance, jumping to the conclusion will be more likely than not, and get baked into human thinking as a heuristic [4].

In general, it appears that statistical, semi-empirical as well as heuristic approaches fare reasonably well because they are able to build on sparse or qualitative information concerning the initial conditions in a specific sub-region.

One analysis in particular called Hubbert Linearization that Deffeyes popularized has no fundamental basis and is often inadequate as a heuristic.

[Editor's Note: Upon review by the SIPN team, this outlook has been listed as heuristic in the Sea Ice Outlook report.]

His projects, in various media, include a rethinking of AIDS and otherness using the figures of the pinprick and the glory hole; meditations on «the residual space of the American / Vietnam War» (comprising works on the squatting body as counter-architecture, military desertion as askesis, and surfing); a video essay on the site / non-site dialectic instigated by Robert Smithson's reception of Edgar Allan Poe (with a little help from Yvonne Rainer); a reconsideration of Marcel Duchamp's oeuvre as an discourse in ethics (as seen through Étant donnés); and «squatting projects» in various cities (Berlin, New York, Chicago, Vienna, Guangzhou, Hong Kong), where the squatting body, as a heuristic cipher, is conjugated by an interpretation generated by the conditions of each location.

His projects in various media include an opera set in Griffith Park; a live / video performance addressing AIDS in the figure of the glory hole; a trilogy on «the residual space of the Vietnam War;» an extended proposal of Duchamp's oeuvre as a discourse in ethics; a meditation on the site / non-site dialectic by way of Edgar Allan Poe; context - specific works centering on the squatting body as a heuristic cipher; and a twenty - year plus collaboration with the writer and art world figure Warren Niesłuchowski.

Moreover, Hartshorne is able to appeal to the divine experience not merely as an heuristic device, but as an actual integration of disparate feelings into a single all - embracing reality.

Nevertheless I think Weber's typology, as a heuristic device, elucidates the social development of institutions.

However, while it is useful as a heuristic in developing models of reaction mechanisms, it has been shown to fail as a criterion for selecting among some selected published models.

I have characterized the theological method operative here as heuristic and concerned with metaphors and models.

Because of their emotional nature, these actions can accurately be used as a heuristic to judge which branding efforts are resonating with your audience, and which aren't.

Like theology as construction, theology as heuristics supports the assertion that our concept of God is precisely that — our concept of God — and not God.

It integrates problem - solving at the heart of learning and uses approaches such as heuristics, bar modelling and metacognition to help pupils gain mastery in Mathematics.

As the heuristics that are used vary among the scientists, you get disagreement.

Not exact matches

Scientists call recall bias «availability heuristic» (which is a mouthful, and why I refer to it as recall bias).

Job titles are essentially heuristics to explain one's duties; however, these titles can be reinvented and serve as profound sources of motivation.

And as science is discovering, that old approach of extrinsic motivators, carrots and sticks, can actually impede our heuristic, right - brain pursuits.

These shortcuts, or mental heuristics, may include an inclination to associate recent events as supporting previously established notions.

The SaaS (software as a service) side of the business uses technologies like machine learning, Big Data analytics, heuristics, and cognitive science for optimisation of route, vehicle, space use and cost.

We could expect, however, a gradual narrowing of gaps between different accounts and interpretations, a movement from uncertainty toward certainty, as historians refine their critiques within a common heuristic.

Hence, while heuristic theology is not limited to interpreting texts, it is concerned with the same «matter» as the classic texts, namely, the salvific power of God.9

Thus, metaphors and models of God are understood to be discovered as well as created, to relate to God's reality not in the sense of being literally in correspondence with it, but as versions or hypotheses of it that the community (in this case, the church) accepts as relatively adequate.16 Hence, models of God are not simply heuristic fictions; the critical realist does not accept the Feuerbachian critique that language about God is nothing but human projection.

Heuristic theology is distinct from theology as hermeneutics or as construction but has similarities with both.8 The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary defines heuristic adjectivally as «serving to find out» and, when employed as a noun related to learning, as «a system of education under which pupils are trained to find out for themselveHeuristic theology is distinct from theology as hermeneutics or as construction but has similarities with both.8 The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary defines heuristic adjectivally as «serving to find out» and, when employed as a noun related to learning, as «a system of education under which pupils are trained to find out for themselveheuristic adjectivally as «serving to find out» and, when employed as a noun related to learning, as «a system of education under which pupils are trained to find out for themselves.»

Therefore, a heuristic, metaphorical theology, though hospitable initially to nonsense, is constrained as well to search for sense.

The kind of theology I will be engaged in here, by no means the only kind, could be called heuristic theology; in analogy with some similar activities in the sciences, it «plays» with possibilities in order to find out, to discover, new fruitful ways to interpret the universe.6 In the case of an heuristic theology focused on cosmology, the discovery would be oriented toward «remythologizing» creation as dependent upon God.

Thus heuristic theology will be one that experiments and tests, that thinks in an as - if fashion, that imagines possibilities that are novel, that dares to think differently.

The heuristic field is narrowed down; and a return is then seldom made to the question of what life is as we spontaneously recognize it in the achievements of animals and cells.

Biology can be designated as a science logically distinct from physics and chemistry because its heuristic field is constituted by questions directed toward whole organisms (plants and animals), cells and their «achievements» rather than toward atoms and molecules as such.

We face at once the heuristic paradox, if fields as diverse as, say, geometry and number theory might be flattened by logicism into the same essential activity, how is it that we sense them as diverse in the first place?

Because most theologians» own training and preoccupation has focussed on the rational discrimination of ideas, the concept of the mass media as integrated power and meaning - generating systems which are actively creating a mythological and heuristic milieu to serve particular social and economic interests is foreign to most theological educators.

As Whitehead and Lonergan, among others, emphasize, our creative conscious participation in reality and life generates the concerns and emphases of our questioning.6 The heuristics of such a participatory and empowerment notion of understanding and scientific performance correlate with an understanding of reality as an ecologically inclusive wholeness, the emergent probability of which is oriented towards ever greater freedom and justice (LL 79 - 109, I 115 - 39As Whitehead and Lonergan, among others, emphasize, our creative conscious participation in reality and life generates the concerns and emphases of our questioning.6 The heuristics of such a participatory and empowerment notion of understanding and scientific performance correlate with an understanding of reality as an ecologically inclusive wholeness, the emergent probability of which is oriented towards ever greater freedom and justice (LL 79 - 109, I 115 - 39as an ecologically inclusive wholeness, the emergent probability of which is oriented towards ever greater freedom and justice (LL 79 - 109, I 115 - 39).

Just as it is important, in order to do justice to the praxis of reason operative in the empirical sciences, to complement their observational and explanatory heuristics with hermeneutical and historical analyses, so it is important, in order to do justice to the praxis of reason operative in hermeneutics and historical reconstructions, to complement their interpretive and reconstructive heuristics with dialectics (BOR 150ff, TW 117ff.).

When the interests of many parties are at stake but only one of the parties is known to the decision — maker, a cognitive bias known as the availability heuristic leads decision — makers to systematically undervalue the interests of the parties less cognitively accessible to them.

The good model understood as a machine has been, and may continue to be, science's best heuristic tool.

Unlike peninsular constructs such as multiverse, which by themselves can not have any direct relation to the life - world, the construct of the visible universe possesses a heuristic quality of predicting some new properties of the universe that are subject to empirical testing (p. 289).

So the late Paul de Man saw the metaphor as a prime cause of delusion and preferred allegory to metaphor as the safer and more rational way to correct the false heuristics of the latter.

Heuristics are a big deal in medicine because, as you can imagine, medical decision making is also subject to them.

This heuristic — Donald Trump as the candidate of schadenfreude — is admittedly difficult to verify.

Investigators in heuristics and biases contend that people can't help but make many types of systematic thinking errors, such as being overconfident in their decisions.

Because of their simplicity, heuristics have long been viewed as inferior to rational thought.

Einstein's relativity remains as durable as ever, but his method — his solitary, heuristic style — is light - years apart from the way most physics is done today.

This «more - is-less» effect happens because the Recognition heuristic does not work as well when you know too much.

Todd and Philip Blythe, another member of the Max Planck team, showed people virtual bugs on a computer screen that were programmed to suggest various intentions by exhibiting different cues — such as their speed and whether they moved in a straight line or meandered — to test a heuristic called Categorisation By Elimination.

Thus, it makes perfect sense for people to use expert consensus as a decision - heuristic to guide their beliefs and behavior.