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pabulum defined

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Noun

1.

intellectual nourishment - anything that provides mental stimulus for thinking food for thought, food cognitive content, mental object, content - the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned pabulum - insipid intellectual nourishment

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1. A substance that gives nourishment; food.

2. Intellectual material that is bland, trite, or insipid; pablum

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Related words

Synonyms

food for thought

Hypernyms (*)

cognitive content, content, mental object

Hyponyms (*)

pabulum

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In my own little world, I understand pabulum tidbits of intellectual nourishment, non-arbitrary "fun-facts"...tidbits of ripe knowledge...choice morsels of serious-musings...insights/growth

Correlation

• If a study or experiment displays a correlation percentage, is there still correlation without causation?

• How do we know if cause and effect are related? In a classic analysis formalized by the 19th-century philosopher John Stuart Mill, a causal relationship exists if 
• (1) the cause preceded the effect, 
• (2) the cause was related to the effect, and 
• (3) we can find no plausible alternative explanation for the effect other than the cause. 
• These three characteristics mirror what happens in experiments in which 
• (1) we manipulate the presumed cause and observe an outcome afterward; 
• (2) we see whether variation in the cause is related to variation in the effect; and 
• (3) we use various methods during the experiment to reduce the plausibility of other explanations for the effect, along with ancillary methods to explore the plausibility of those we cannot rule out (most of this book is about methods for doing this).

http://impact.cgiar.org/pdf/147.pdf#page=7