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To my understanding, "effective" also means to have an impact, while "efficient" focuses more on the ratio impact/resources. In that way, I find the wording "e
by vog 11y ago
To my understanding, "effective" also means to have an impact, while "efficient" focuses more on the ratio impact/resources.
In that way, I find the wording "effective" better suited. It means the maximum impact given your resources, while for "efficient" it would be okay to have 80% of the effect if you get that for just 70% of your resources.
- stared 11y agoI understand that "effective" has also this meaning. But, as I pointed out, is ambiguous, with the "default" meaning being very different (not just subtly) from the intended one. Especially as, in evolutionary biology, and game theory, there is a big topic of investigating how egoistic behaviour may give raise to an altruistic effect. (And of course, the main thing is that adjectives created from nouns are very ambiguous, i.e. effective can mean both "altruism that gives effect" or "altruism that is an effect".)