indifference interval n. Quick reference
A Dictionary of Psychology (4 ed.)
... interval n . A time interval that, according to Vierordt's law , is neither systematically overestimated nor systematically underestimated, usually found by experiment to be in the region of 0.7 second, though varying from one person to another and from one occasion to...
indifference interval
Acts Reference library
Loveday Alexander and Loveday Alexander
The Oxford Bible Commentary
...the Jewish community. This is almost certainly a correct perception for the period Luke is describing; Suetonius' account of Claudius' expulsion of the Jews ( acts 18:2 ) shows that a Roman writer could still make the same assumption in the second century. Gallio's studied indifference ( v. 17 ) is not a particularly good advertisement for Roman justice, but it does make the point dramatically that the dispute over the messianist interpretation of the Jewish Scriptures was not something with which the Roman authorities needed to be concerned. ( 18:18–23 )...
Job Reference library
James L. Crenshaw and James L. Crenshaw
The Oxford Bible Commentary
...in insult (his friends blow wind; the noun hebel in v. 12 , as well as the verb from the same root, h-b-l , means ‘breath’, hence lit. ‘breathes a breath,’ blows wind). Between these sharp barbs rest rhetorical questions that emphasize God's arbitrary power and complete indifference to sinners by God and to God by them. There, too, is a promise to instruct the friends more fully about God's actions. ( 27:13–23 ) The opening verse, which repeats Zophar's conclusion in 20:29 , signals the imitative quality of this unit. Job appears to say that he can make...
Vierordt's law
Compensation
Vierordt’s law n. Quick reference
A Dictionary of Psychology (4 ed.)
...law n . The proposition that short time intervals tend to be overestimated and long ones underestimated, the indifference interval being the intermediate length that is neither overestimated nor underestimated, usually found by experiment to be in the region of 0.7 second. [Named after the German physiologist Karl von Vierordt ( 1818–84 ) who formulated it in 1868...
Compensation Reference library
The Oxford Companion to American Literature (6 ed.)
...above our will by the law of nature…. Our strength grows out of our weakness.” But the author does not counsel indifference. “Under all this running sea of circumstance …lies the aboriginal abyss of real Being.” Wisdom and virtue involve no penalty, but are qualities of being; “in a virtuous action, I properly am. ” The individual, trusting instinct, acts in accord with a divinely balanced justice, and “the changes which break up at short intervals the prosperity of men, are advertisements of a nature whose law is...
nursery food Reference library
Tom Jaine
The Oxford Companion to Food (3 ed.)
... pudding and other pappy sweets. But the tendency is older. The French chef Louis Eustache Ude ( 1828 ) , while profitably employed by the English aristocracy, deplored the pernicious effect of English fog, the unremitting hostility of English doctors to good eating, and the indifference of English women to fine food. ‘The ladies of England,’ he wrote, ‘are unfavourably disposed to our art; yet I find no difficulty in assigning the cause of it. It is particularly the case with them (and indeed it is so in some measure with our own sex) that they are not...
Church of England Reference library
Robert Newsom
The Oxford Reader's Companion to Dickens
...the High Church views of the Oxford Movement and is perhaps Dickens's most outspoken attack on conservative Anglicanism. Ironically likening the students of Oxford to the children employed in mines and factories, he finds them ‘reduced to such a melancholy state of apathy and indifference as to be willing to sign anything, without asking what it is, or knowing what it means … to the extent of nine-and-thirty articles at once’. In the manuscript, Dickens had added after the reference to the Thirty-Nine Articles, ‘every one of which shall contradict the other’....
The Problem and the Measurement of Time in Psychology, 1874–1910 Reference library
Silvia Degni
The Oxford Encyclopedia of the History of Modern Psychology
...“moment of indifference” was represented by the intervals between 700 and 800 thousandths of a second. Vierordt’s law was widely shared. There was a tendency in the past to believe that the point of indifference represented the unity of subjective time since in this case subjective time and objective time coincide. However, later experimental results indicated that the point of indifference would not be an absolute value. This led researchers to believe that the point of indifference could be related to a sort of central tendency of the intervals used in the...
Jurimetrics Reference library
The Oxford Companion to the High Court of Australia
... any postulated ranking, and at any precisely postulated set of mathematical intervals. A scale derived from scalogram rankings can be precisely identified; but so can a scale derived from the Justices' shoe sizes or telephone numbers. Fifthly, if any set of rankings and intervals derived from a cumulative scale can be precisely located in a six-dimensional space, it is also unsurprising and insignificant that a reasonably good approximation of the same set of rankings and intervals can be located in a space of lesser dimensionality, such as a two- or...
Measuring Health Utility in Economics Reference library
José Luis Pinto Prades, Arthur Attema, and Fernando Ignacio Sánchez Martínez
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Health Economics
...routings, such as bisection, titration (or up and down), ping-pong, and so on ( Attema, Edelaar-Peeters, Versteegh, & Stolk, 2013 ). These procedures are usually “transparent” in the sense that the individual may easily notice that he or she is being led to an indifference value or interval. Less transparent methods have been suggested as a way of avoiding biases (e.g., anchoring effects) and reducing inconsistencies or discrepancies between preferences revealed through direct choices and those derived from choice-based matching procedures. These...
Epidemics Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Australian History
...cough, and measles have ceased to threaten us—so much so that health authorities now warn of public apathy towards immunisation against preventable infections. Amid the emergence of alarming new diseases, bacterial as well as viral, and the waning efficacy of antibiotics, such indifference seems at once a reflection and a betrayal of medicine's achievements in the twentieth century. Anthea...
Time Preferences for Health Reference library
Marjon van der Pol and Alastair Irvine
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Health Economics
...methods are used to elicit time preferences for health, including matching tasks and variations on choice (such as single binary choice, multiple price lists, and discrete choice experiments). Common to all these methods is the attempt to find an indifference point for the respondent. Using this indifference (whether in timing, size of outcome, or probability of outcome) makes it possible to identify the discount rate under assumptions that vary by method. What follows is an explanation of the different methods using the common design of trading off days...
Handel, George Frideric (23 Feb. 1685) Reference library
Peter Lynan
The Oxford Companion to Music
... Saul , and Israel . But in spite of the attractions of oratorio, the public reaction to Handel's works still varied, and Handel himself was not yet ready to abandon opera. He returned to it for the last time in 1740 with Imeneo and Deidamia , but they were both met with indifference. By summer 1741 there were rumours that Handel intended to return to Germany, but an invitation from the lord-lieutenant of Ireland to give a series of concerts in Dublin seems to have fired his enthusiasm. He composed Messiah before leaving London in November, and in Dublin...
Scholasticism Reference library
The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation
...writings of Augustine, which became readily available at the end of the first decade of the sixteenth century. The Reformation Attitude toward Scholasticism The predominant attitude within the early Reformation toward Scholasticism can perhaps best be described as a studied indifference. This attitude, which mirrors that of Renaissance humanism in general, treats the movement as something not worthy of being taken seriously. Reformers sympathetic to the Renaissance outlook—such as Philipp Melanchthon , Huldrych Zwingli , and Vadian—are generally dismissive...
Subsurface Testing Reference library
Michael J. Shott, C. F. Gaffney, John W. Weymouth, Margaret Watters, and Lawrence B. Conyers
The Oxford Companion To Archaeology (2 ed.)
...as the result of the analysis of aerial photographs or field-walking data, it is subdivided into convenient collection blocks, usually measuring 60 or 98 square feet (20 or 30 sq m). Within these blocks, the data are systematically collected, usually at one-meter intervals. The sample interval varies depending upon the expected features. Although the field procedure is very easy to master, the interpretation of the results requires some experience. The value at a particular point is a bulk measurement and may be related to complex archaeological strata. Features...
Temperaments Reference library
-MARK Lindley
The Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments (2 ed.)
...else (perhaps Jean Denis): hence he did not adequately clarify the fact that when one tempers an ascending 5th, for instance by tuning a G to a C, one makes the note G lower than pure in order to make the interval in C–G smaller than pure, but when one is tempering B♭ to F one must tune the note B♭ higher than pure in order to produce the same kind of interval, namely a 5th tempered smaller than pure. Virtually every set of step-by-step instructions for meantone temperament includes an awkward sentence or two about this point (Praetorius devoted nearly half a...
Visitations Reference library
The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation
...relating to the material state of the church to the religious practice of parishioners. As in Germany, the written record of these inquiries reveals a persistent and often bitter friction between laity and clergy, much frustration among the latter, and a good deal of religious indifference on the part of the former. But it also shows that, however haltingly, reform was beginning to take hold, and the condition of the church in society was improving. In England visitations of monasteries had been steady events since the thirteenth century, and of the secular...
