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  2. Wikipedia:Emerson and Wilde on consistency - Wikipedia

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    The Emerson and Wilde quotations, in their original actual senses, are often theoretically pertinent in regard to Wikipedia:Consensus can change arguments, as when status-quo stonewalling is getting in the way of common sense adjustments to an outmoded approach to how we do something around here.

  3. Self-Reliance - Wikipedia

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    Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay called for staunch individualism. "Self-Reliance" is an 1841 essay written by American transcendentalist philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson.It contains the most thorough statement of one of his recurrent themes: the need for each person to avoid conformity and false consistency, and follow his or her own instincts and ideas.

  4. Wikipedia:Consistency - Wikipedia

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    Wikipedia:Emerson and Wilde on consistency, an essay on the misuse of famous writers' fragmentary quotations about consistency; Wikipedia:Consistency proposal, a failed 2006 proposal for a consistency guideline for facts in articles (formerly at Wikipedia:Consistency)

  5. Criteria of truth - Wikipedia

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    Additionally, strict consistency may produce results lacking coherence and completeness. While a philosophical system may demonstrate rigorous consistency with the facts it considers, all facts must be taken into consideration for an adequate criterion of truth, regardless of their detriment to any given system. [6]

  6. Ralph Waldo Emerson - Wikipedia

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    Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882), [2] who went by his middle name Waldo, [3] was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, minister, abolitionist, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.

  7. Reliability (statistics) - Wikipedia

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    Unfortunately, there is no way to directly observe or calculate the true score, so a variety of methods are used to estimate the reliability of a test. Some examples of the methods to estimate reliability include test-retest reliability, internal consistency reliability, and parallel-test reliability. Each method comes at the problem of ...

  8. Kuder–Richardson formulas - Wikipedia

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    The name of this formula stems from the fact that is the twentieth formula discussed in Kuder and Richardson's seminal paper on test reliability. [1] It is a special case of Cronbach's α, computed for dichotomous scores. [2] [3] It is often claimed that a high KR-20 coefficient (e.g., > 0.90) indicates a homogeneous test. However, like ...

  9. Wikipedia talk : Emerson and Wilde on consistency

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