Why do some individuals of a given species show consistent levels of
average behavior over time and across contexts, while others vary in their behavior?
Historically, psychological science has overlooked individual differences in favor of focusing
on average behavior.
This
makes average behavior, average academic performance or behavior look defective or deficient, and that increases the number of kids who get identified as having attention deficit disorder.
My experience with extremes and detection and attribution of an anthropogenic signal in those is that only by
averaging the behavior of extremes (both temperature extremes and precipitation extremes) over large geographical areas (continental or barely sub-continental) we have been able to see something outside of natural variability.
Let your tween select, modify, and create his or her own experiences and environments rather than relying on a one - size - fits - all approach that is presented
by average behavior models.
Think of the minimalism at Costco, fee reductions at Vanguard, or portfolio concentration in the Kelley formula: In order to have better than average results, you need to have different than
average behavior.
Parents can look at a sign of giftedness and consider it perfectly normal,
average behavior.
Developing novel tools to quantify gene expression in single cells As it has become increasingly apparent that gene expression in individual cells deviates significantly from
the average behavior of cell populations, new methods that provide accurate integer counts of mRNA copy numbers in individual cells are needed.
It is virtually impossible to reduce
that average behavior into reliably accurate forecasts for specific periods of time.
This is in fact part of the central conceit behind climatology: it isn't dealing with the day to day weather so much as
the average behavior of the system, but it can do this only because fluctuations and unknown factors often cancel one - another out.
So if you want to understand
the average behavior of that system you need to sample at a much larger spatial scale over larger time intervals than was previously appreciated.
The children whose grandparents participated in the program began the study with
an average behavior severity score of about 13 points and a frequency score of about 122 points.