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Economist/applied maths grad student here: econ is full of control theory jargon ("overshooting", "hysteresis" and so on); often well applied too. And if econom
by thanatropism 11y ago
Economist/applied maths grad student here: econ is full of control theory jargon ("overshooting", "hysteresis" and so on); often well applied too. And if economics is aware of this, systems sociologists in the Parsons/Luhmann tradition are probably also aware of it.
So who's the "typical reader"? Web designers? Startup founders?
Bonus ironic jab/useful information combo: https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hysteresis https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hysteresis
- PhasmaFelis 11y ago> So who's the "typical reader"? Web designers? Startup founders? You mean for Hacker News, or Wikipedia? There's actually a Wikipedia article about that (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Readers_first https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Readers_first), but a good rule of thumb is that articles should be written for the layperson except where that would impact accuracy. I think Styrophone's explanations above demonstrate that this particular article could be a lot clearer without sacrificing accuracy.