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I understand less than before. Originally I assumed "troubling relationship differentials" meant "their relationships struggle with the difference in status fro
by Noumenon72 5y ago
I understand less than before. Originally I assumed "troubling relationship differentials" meant "their relationships struggle with the difference in status from them and people in power over them". Now you're describing someone asking you a question as a "differential effect" and saying "thinking about differentials" as a plain noun, a structure that only allows the mathematical definition of "differential" to fit for me.
I spent time reading this link trying to understand what you mean:
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/392979/different-vs-differential-pricing-adjectives https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/392979/different...
- themodelplumber 5y agoIn my work, "differentials" makes some sense because I do a lot of thinking in terms of specific groupings, which I guess in that SO link would fit next to classes. I am talking about differences but in more of a logic-derived, mechanistic way compared to more usual ways of thinking about people. This helps to apply thinking that is a bit more hands-off, which is useful for the same reason that DATA was useful in ST:TNG, I guess you can say. (Not that it's super unique to think that way; certainly lots of people are capable of logically thinking themselves into gigantic problems, like Michael Larson and _Press Your Luck_) I wish I could really do it all justice here but HN comments probably just aren't the place, anyway.
- scollet 5y agoIf you can condense this thread and relate to the subject, a blog would be interesting.