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(Sorry to nitpick, but) I think you mean "learning method"? A method is a method; a methodology is the reasons, rationale, explanation for why you've used that
by yesenadam 8y ago
(Sorry to nitpick, but) I think you mean "learning method"? A method is a method; a methodology is the reasons, rationale, explanation for why you've used that particular method. I see this error everywhere, although it's much longer and incorrect. I guess it sounds/looks impressive, kinda scientific.
- TeMPOraL 8y agoIs it really an error if everything from Google to Merriam-Webster apparently makes it? https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/methodology https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/methodology > a body of methods, rules, and postulates employed by a discipline : a particular procedure or set of procedures I.e. methodology is a set of methods.
- yesenadam 8y agoI didn't quite understand your question, but yes it's really an error. No, that's not what methodology means. Although if everyone uses it to mean the same as method, as seems increasingly the case, then that will be what it means and be printed in dictionaries. Personally, I like short words and think they should be preferred, besides the two concepts being entirely different.
- TeMPOraL 8y ago> Although if everyone uses it to mean the same as method, as seems increasingly the case, then that will be what it means and be printed in dictionaries. As far as I've ever heard or seen this word used, "methodology" is used to mean "a set of methods". Maybe you're a bit confused by the fact that a method can be usually destructured into sub-methods - or conversely, a "methodology" is just a single method in the set of methods one meta-level up.