Measurement and meaningfulness

Measurement and meaningfulness in conservation science.

Incomplete databases often require conservation scientists to estimate data either through expert judgment or other scoring, rating, and ranking procedures. At the same time, ecosystem complexity has led to the use of increasingly sophisticated algorithms and mathematical models to aid in conservation theorizing, planning, and decision making. Understanding the limitations imposed by the scales...

Meaningfulness and Invariance

Few disavow the principle that scientific propositions should be meaningful in the sense of asserting something that is verifiable or falsifiable about the qualitative or empirical situation under discussion. What makes this principle tricky to apply in practice is that much of what is said is formulated not as simple assertions about qualitative or empirical events – such as a certain object s...

Meaningfulness and Trigram Recognition 1

Recognition, after 1, 3, 6, 15, and 30 intervening events, for CCC and CVC trigrams of low, medium, and high meaningfulness (M) was studied in the Shepard-Teghtsoonian paradigm. Correct recognition varied directly with M and inversely with number of intervening events. False recognition varied inversely with M and increased with total number of presentations. Confidence in correct recognitions ...

Understanding Meaningfulness in Videogames

This thesis explores "meaningfulness" in videogames. Academics, journalists, and others who write about games often discuss the concept of meaning yet seldom define it clearly. I am focusing on a variation of this topic: what it means for a gaming experience to be meaningful--literally: full of meaning. Meaningfulness, as I define it, refers to the quality a videogame has when one considers it ...

Body World and Time: Meaningfulness in Portability