The principle of least effort is a broad theory that covers diverse fields from evolutionary biology to webpage design. It postulates that animals, people...
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The principle of least interest is the idea in sociology that the person or group that has the least amount of interest in continuing a relationship has...
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Brevity law (redirect from Zipf's law of abbreviation)
Pareto distribution Principle of least effort Rank–size distribution Zipf GK. 1949 Human behavior and the principle of least effort. Cambridge, MA: Addison-Wesley...
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according to the principle of least effort, or the "path of least resistance". Recursive navigation systems are an example of this. The path of least resistance...
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Zipf's law (category Pages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets via Module:Annotated link)
distribution Pareto principle – Statistical principle about ratio of effects to causes Price's law – Bibliometric hypothesis Principle of least effort – Idea that...
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Economy (linguistics) (redirect from Economy Principle (linguistics))
contributing to the optimization of the linguistic system. Previous definitions included the principle of least effort as discussed by Joseph Vendryes...
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The Law of Demeter (LoD) or principle of least knowledge is a design guideline for developing software, particularly object-oriented programs. In its general...
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George Kingsley Zipf (category Harvard University Department of German faculty)
Intercity Movement of Persons. American Sociological Review, vol. 11, Dec, pp. 677 (1949): Human behavior and the principle of least effort Leitch, Matthew...
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Mooers's law (section Out-of-context interpretation)
more common interpretation of Mooers's law is similar to Zipf's principle of least effort. It emphasizes the amount of effort needed to use and understand...
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0023. Zipf, George, Kingsley (1949). Human Behaviour and the Principle of Least Effort. Reading MA: Addison-Wesley. p. 5.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple...
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Probability distribution Principle of least effort – Idea that agents prefer to do what's easiest Rank-size distribution – distribution of size by rankPages...
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(Solomon & Bronstein, 2021). A variety of theories of information behavior – e.g. Zipf's Principle of Least Effort, Brenda Dervin's Sense Making, Elfreda...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. Zipf, George Kingsley (1949). Human behavior and the principle of least effort. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press....
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DNA (redirect from History of science and technology/Discovery of DNA)
at least four bases are required for the corresponding RNA, while a higher number is also possible but this would be against the natural principle of least...
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Palatal consonant (category Place of articulation)
palatalized consonant. This is due to the principle of least effort and is an example of the general phenomenon of coarticulation. (On the other hand, Spanish...
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law Heaps' law Bradford's law Benford's law Pareto distribution Principle of least effort Rank–size distribution Gabriel Altmann, Michael H. Schwibbe (1989)...
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assumptions said people were at least partially guided by the "principle of least effort". This principle stated that in the interest of economy, the mind would...
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mathematical intuition. For Poincaré, it is a result of the principle of least effort, that is, of a link to scientific convention based on experimentation...
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In programming, the rule of least power is a design principle that "suggests choosing the least powerful [computer] language suitable for a given purpose"...
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Functional linguistics (redirect from Functionalist theories of grammar)
linguist André Martinet. Martinet's concept is similar to Zipf's principle of least effort; although the idea had been discussed by various linguists in...
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'coz' are examples of erosion in English. Some linguists trace erosion to the speaker's tendency to follow the principle of least effort, while others think...
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Elision (category Figures of speech)
and related connected-speech phenomena in terms of the principle of least effort or "economy of effort". This concept has been stated as "If a word or...
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Chapter 8. ACM Press 1999. G. K. Zipf. Human Behavior and the Principle of Least Effort. Addison-Wesley, 1949. Adelson-Velskii, G.M., Landis, E. M.: An...
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Intercity Movement of Persons. American Sociological Review, vol. 11, Oct Zipf, G. K., 1949. Human Behaviour and the Principle of Least Effort. Massachusetts...
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Language change (category Wikipedia articles in need of updating from December 2024)
involves a trade-off of costs and benefits. The principle of least effort tends to result in phonetic reduction of speech forms. See vowel reduction, cluster...
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principle (also known as the 80/20 rule, the law of the vital few and the principle of factor sparsity) states that for many outcomes, roughly 80% of...
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Trip distribution (section Stability of travel times)
Intercity Movement of Persons. American Sociological Review, vol. 11, Oct Zipf, G. K., 1949. Human Behaviour and the Principle of Least Effort. Massachusetts...
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Logology (science) (redirect from Logology (science of science))
Pattern recognition Philosophy of science Politicization of science Principle of least effort Pseudoscience Public awareness of science Publication bias Publish...
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and the Principle of Least Effort. Reading MA, USA: Addison-Wesley. Ferrer i Cancho, R. & R.V. Solé (2003). "Least effort and the origins of scaling in...
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social science generally and linguistics specifically, the cooperative principle describes how people achieve effective conversational communication in...
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