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  2. Negative utilitarianism - Wikipedia

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    Others distinguish between "strong" and "weak" versions of negative utilitarianism, where strong versions are only concerned with reducing negative well-being, and weak versions say that both positive and negative well-being matter but that negative well-being matters more. [5]

  3. Weak and strong sustainability - Wikipedia

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    Weak sustainability is an idea based upon the work of Nobel laureate Robert Solow, [4] [5] [6] and John Hartwick. [7] [8] [9] which states that 'human capital' can substitute 'natural capital'. The weak sustainability paradigm stems from the 1970s.

  4. Negative and positive atheism - Wikipedia

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    Implicit "negative" / "weak" / "soft" atheists who lack a belief in God without explicitly denying the concept, includes very young children, those who are unacquainted with the concept or are truly undecided. on right: Explicit "negative" / "weak" / "soft" atheists who do not believe that God exists necessarily. on right

  5. Implicit and explicit atheism - Wikipedia

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    The terms "weak atheism" and "strong atheism", also known as "negative atheism" and "positive atheism", are usually used by Smith as synonyms of the less well-known "implicit" and "explicit" categories. "Strong explicit" atheists assert that it is false that any deities exist.

  6. Situational strength - Wikipedia

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    A meta-analysis was performed by Bowling et al. to test the relationship of situational strength between job satisfaction and job performance. The results of this were that constraints and consequences both led to a negative relationship. Job satisfaction and job performance were more related to each other in strong versus weak situations.

  7. Interpersonal ties - Wikipedia

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    Interpersonal ties, generally, come in three varieties: strong, weak or absent. Weak social ties, it is argued, are responsible for the majority of the embeddedness and structure of social networks in society as well as the transmission of information through these networks. Specifically, more novel information flows to individuals through weak ...

  8. Strong and weak sampling - Wikipedia

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    Strong and weak sampling are two sampling approach [1] in Statistics, and are popular in computational cognitive science and language learning. [2] In strong sampling, it is assumed that the data are intentionally generated as positive examples of a concept, [3] while in weak sampling, it is assumed that the data are generated without any restrictions.

  9. Revealed preference - Wikipedia

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    Revealed preference theory, pioneered by economist Paul Anthony Samuelson in 1938, [1] [2] is a method of analyzing choices made by individuals, mostly used for comparing the influence of policies [further explanation needed] on consumer behavior.