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Two concepts in the social sciences and psychiatry are useful: the idea of equifinality and the idea of multifinality.
Dan Agin: A Demon in the Head II: Early Days and Murderous Violence 2009
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Two concepts in the social sciences and psychiatry are useful: the idea of equifinality and the idea of multifinality.
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The caveat is that human behavior can be expected to exhibit both equifinality and multifinality, and this needs to be kept in mind in any attempt to isolate causes.
Dan Agin: A Demon in the Head II: Early Days and Murderous Violence 2009
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As he tested various hypotheses about why a particular spatial distribution had come to be, he sometimes found that more than one hypothesis could lead to the exact same pattern—a phenomenon that scientists and philosophers often call “equifinality.”
The Goddess and the Bull MICHAEL BALTER 2005
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[7] J. Mathieu, T. Heffner, G. Goodwin, J. Cannon-Bowers, and E. Salas, "Scaling the quality of teammates 'mental models: equifinality and normative comparisons," Journal of Organizational Behavior, vol. 26, pp. 37-56, 2005.
unknown title 2009
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How true that equifinality applies to both climate and death.
RealClimate 2009
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How true that equifinality applies to both climate and death.
RealClimate 2009
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The caveat is that human behavior can be expected to exhibit both equifinality and multifinality, and this needs to be kept in mind in any attempt to isolate causes.
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t be in this business; reflects something of the current problem and the nature of the equifinality that has currently defeated policy.
unknown title 2008
m1ke101 commented on the word equifinality
term in systems theory, means there is usually more than one way to come to a conclusiion
February 17, 2008
bohemianbetty03 commented on the word equifinality
any single outcome may be produced by many different causes.
January 30, 2012