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151:, in 1914 Bridgman attempted to redefine unobservable entities concretely in terms of the physical and mental operations used to measure them. Accordingly, the definition of each unobservable entity was uniquely identified with the instrumentation used to define it. From the beginning objections were raised to this approach, in large part around the inflexibility. As Boyd notes, "In actual, and apparently reliable, scientific practice, changes in the instrumentation associated with theoretical terms are routine. and apparently crucial to the progress of science. According to a 'pure' operationalist conception, these sorts of modifications would not be methodologically acceptable, since 605:
informal perception, the greater the number it will achieve on our respective hardness scales. Furthermore, experimental results obtained using these measurement methods has shown that the hardness number can be used to predict the stress required to permanently deform steel, a characteristic that fits in well with our idea of resistance to permanent deformation. However, there is not always a simple relationship between the various hardness scales. Vickers and Rockwell hardness numbers exhibit qualitatively different behaviour when used to describe some materials and phenomena.
299: 486:, refers to heat "flowing" between "infinite reservoirs". This is all highly abstract and unsuited for the day-to-day world of science and trade. In order to make the idea concrete, temperature is defined in terms of operations with the gas thermometer. However, these are sophisticated and delicate instruments, only adapted to the national standardization laboratory. 346: 25: 281:, in a process context, also can denote a working method or a philosophy that focuses principally on cause and effect relationships (or stimulus/response, behavior, etc.) of specific interest to a particular domain at a particular point in time. As a working method, it does not consider issues related to a domain that are more general, such as the 847:. "Science is knowledge agreed upon by members of society. Only those constructs based upon operations which are public and repeatable are admitted to the body of science. ... A term or proposition has meaning (denotes something) if, and only if, the criteria of its applicability or truth consist of concrete operations which can be performed." 412:
One referenced project pulled together fluid experts, including some who were expert in the numeric modeling related to computational fluid dynamics, in a team with computer scientists. Essentially, it turned out that the computer guys did not know enough to weigh in as much as they would have liked.
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Science uses computing. Computing uses science. We have seen the development of computer science. There are not many who can bridge all three of these. One effect is that, when results are obtained using a computer, the results can be impossible to replicate if the code is poorly documented, contains
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and behaviorism in psychology" were powerfully applied in the early part of the 20th century. However, computation has changed the landscape. He notes that we need to distinguish four levels of "irreversible physical and computational abstraction" (Platonic abstraction, computational approximation,
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of any and every operation including that of denoting. In this sense discrimination is the fundamental operation of all science. ... We must define the criteria by which we determine the applicability of a term in a given instance and then ... maintain constant vigil against the human tendency to
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projects experienced similarly that there is a trade-off between trying to teach programming to a domain expert versus getting a programmer to understand the intricacies of a domain. That, of course, depends upon the domain. In short, any team member has to decide which side of the coin to spend
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In all these, a process is defined for loading the indenter, measuring the resulting indentation, and calculating a hardness number. Each of these three sequences of measurement operations produces numbers that are consistent with our subjective idea of hardness. The harder the material to our
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In advanced modeling, with the requisite computational support such as knowledge-based engineering, mappings must be maintained between a real-world object, its abstracted counterparts as defined by the domain and its experts, and the computer models. Mismatches between domain models and their
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Many times, issues are related to persistence and clarity of use of variables, functions, and so forth. Also, systems dependence is an issue. In brief, length (as a standard) has matter as its definitional basis. What pray tell can be used when standards are to be computationally framed?
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Operational definitions are also used to define system states in terms of a specific, publicly accessible process of preparation or validation testing. For example, 100 degrees Celsius may be operationally defined as the process of heating water at sea level until it is observed to boil.
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Hence, operational definition can be used within the realm of the interactions of humans with advanced computational systems. In this sense, one area of discourse deals with computational thinking in, and with how it might influence, the sciences. To quote the American Scientist:
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of "fear" (the construct) often includes measurable physiologic responses that occur in response to a perceived threat. Thus, "fear" might be operationally defined as specified changes in heart rate, galvanic skin response, pupil dilation, and blood pressure.
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Vandervert, L. (1988). Operational definitions made simple, useful, and lasting. In M. Ware & C. Brewer (Eds.), Handbook for teaching statistics and reseas (pp. 132–134). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. (Original work published
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computational mirrors can raise issues apropos this topic. Techniques that allow the flexible modeling required for many hard problems must resolve issues of identity, type, etc. which then lead to methods, such as duck typing. Many domains, with a
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specifies concrete, replicable procedures designed to represent a construct. In the words of American psychologist S.S. Stevens (1935), "An operation is the performance which we execute in order to make known a concept." For example, an operational
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is a specific constellation of stars in the sky, hence the process of forming Virgo cannot be an operational definition, since it is historical and not repeatable. Nevertheless, the process whereby we locate Virgo in the sky
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focus, use limit theory, of various sorts, to overcome the duck test necessity with varying degrees of success. Yet, with that, issues still remain as representational frameworks bear heavily on what we can know.
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activity at universities. An academic suggested that a subject matter area becomes a discipline when there are more than a dozen university departments using the same name for roughly the same subject matter.
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The International Society for Technology in Education has a brochure detailing an "operational definition" of computational thinking. At the same time, the ISTE made an attempt at defining related skills.
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Electrical stimulation of the amygdala elicits many of the behaviors used to define a state of fear, with selected target areas of the amygdala producing specific effects (Fig. 1).
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repeatable, so in this way, Virgo is operationally defined. In fact, Virgo can have any number of definitions (although we can never prove that we are talking about the
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collapsed, killing 35 construction workers. The subsequent enquiry found that the failure arose because engineers had specified the supply of a quantity of
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in this context lacked an operational definition, so there was no test for accepting or rejecting a particular shipment or for controlling quality.
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functional abstraction, and value computation). Then, we must rely on interactive methods, that have behavior as their focus (see duck test).
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Collberg, C., Roebsting, T. (2016) "Repeatability in Computer Systems Research" Communications of the ACM, Vol. 59, No. 3, pages 62–69 (via
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In arguing for an object-based methodology, Peter Wegner suggested that "positivist scientific philosophies, such as operationalism in
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Roepstorff, A. & Jack, A. (2004). "Trust or Interaction? Editorial introduction, Special Issue: Trusting the Subject? (Part 2)."
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conductors, separated by a specified distance. This definition is too abstract for practical measurement, so a device known as a
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need to be operationally defined before they become amenable to scientific investigation, for example, through processes such as
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Lang, P. J.; Davis, M.; Ohman, A. (2000). "Fear and anxiety: animal models and human cognitive psychophysiology".
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placed great importance on the value of using operational definitions in all agreements in business. As he said:
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read into a concept more than is contained in the operations by which it is determined." (emphasis in original).
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Roepstorff, A. & Jack, A. (2003). "Editorial introduction, Special Issue: Trusting the Subject? (Part 1)."
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Of these, indentation hardness itself leads to many operational definitions, the most important of which are:
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A recognized skill is tolerance for ambiguity and being able to handle open-ended problems. For instance, a
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is a procedure agreed upon for translation of a concept into measurement of some kind." – W. Edwards Deming
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The computer revolution has profoundly affected how we think about science, experimentation, and research.
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Hyman, Bronwen and Shephard, Alfred H. (1980) "Zeitgeist: The Development of an Operational Definition",
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Hermans, H. J. M. (1996). "Voicing the self: from information processing to dialogical interchange."
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system can enhance its operational aspect and thereby its stability through more involvement by the
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Ribes-Inesta, Emilio "What Is Defined In Operational Definitions? The Case Of Operant Psychology",
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M. H. Marx (Ed.), Theories in contemporary psychology (pp. 47–76). New York: MacMillan.
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Green, C. D. (1992). "Of Immortal Mythological Beasts: Operationism in Psychology."
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A Neurocomputational Perspective— The Nature of Mind and the Structure of Science,
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of a material. It is a slightly vague, subjective idea, somewhat like the idea of
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Stevens, S. S. (1935). The operational definition of psychological concepts.
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Hardcastle, G. L. (1995). "S.S. Stevens and the origins of operationism."
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What is defined in operational definitions? The case of operant psychology
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An operational definition is designed to model or represent a concept or
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Defining a concept in terms of specific, replicable actions or procedures
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the notion of operational definitions is closely related to the idea of
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Langfeld, H.S. (1945). Introduction to the Symposium on Operationism.
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Thus, their role, to their chagrin, many times was "mere" programmer.
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Operational definitions are often most challenging in the fields of
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The Elimination of Metaphysics Through Logical Analysis of Language
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can be viewed as the introduction of operational definitions for
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Weight: a measurement of gravitational force acting on an object
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origins of the concept, particularly its close association with
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Depraz, N. (1999). "The phenomenological reduction as praxis."
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Neurophilosophy— Toward a unified science of the mind/brain,
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Stevens, S. S. (1935). The operational basis of psychology.
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A cake can be operationally defined by a cake recipe.
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Rebound, or dynamic, hardness measured with a Shore
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