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Then it would be an abuse of terminology. One that would immediately
mislead the reader, unless you very, very carefully explain that you
are using nonlinear in an unconventional sense, every single time you
use the term.
BTW, what exactly do you mean by nonlinear, if not in the sense I
suggested?
Cheers
On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 07:24:55AM -0600, Michael Agar wrote:
> Nope, that's not at all what I meant. The centuries old qualitative/
> quantitative issue, needs revisiting now, but that's a course of
> study, not an email.
>
>
> >
> > When I hear "nonlinear effects of mental health policy" I immediately
> > think of some variable (eg some measure of social good) that
> > depends on
> > some other variable (eg money) in a nonlinear way (eg social good
> > varies as the square of money spent).
> >
> > Whilst you may be using the term a little imprecisely by not being
> > quantitative, it is still a perfectly valid use of the term.
> > However, if
> > the above paragraph is not what you mean, then you've immediately lost
> > one of your readers.
> >
> >
>
>
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