But in an age of multiple media, curators and outreach specialists ought to worry more about
the fit between subject and format.
Not exact matches
It's convienient to note the parallels
between the director's over-ambition and that of his
subject, but the comparison
fits.
Because - and especially in their assessments - they tend to reflect familiar categories: The sharp and often distorting distinctions among and
between «
subjects»; age grading; the value placed on quick recall; the dumbing down of the quality and grace of expository prose to make it
fit into some sort of rating scheme; the overload of material to be covered, usually the inevitable result of intracommittee ideological logrolling, which leads to a bit of this and a dollop of that; the almost absolute denial of a value placed on individual ingenuity, craggy but provocative thinking, sustained work, and desirable variety; the lack of interest, signaled by the assessment apparatus, of the virtues of fairness, good character, and imagination.
He tried his best at finding common ground
between the concepts of
subject and objective probabilities, and that is where the mind projection fallacy
fits in.
This multiple regression
fit is
subject to the same set of caveats as all others (i.e. selection effects of the choice of inputs, inter-correlations
between inputs, nonlinear responses and overfitting of internal variability).
Analyses were implemented at the level of the individual using random effects (multilevel) linear regression models24
fitted using maximum - likelihood estimation to allow for the correlation (or clustering)
between the responses of
subjects from the same MCH unit.