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Without knowing the prevailing trends, these data do not give any information on the future success or failure of Wikipedia. Recent note: In response to this essay, new data have been added to the sister essay on the rate of promotion of Vital Articles to Featured Article status; 30 were promoted in 2006, roughly doubling the number from 41 to ...
Failure: Without it, the world would be a different place. On Wikipedia, failure is a good thing because people are prone to mistakes, and they learn as a result of them. Every administrator probably has a few projects where they failed at something, but they will tell you that they learned as a result of them.
For example, a Bernoulli trial is a random experiment with exactly two possible outcomes, "success" and "failure", in which the probability of success is the same every time the experiment is conducted. [20] The concept is named after Jacob Bernoulli, a 17th-century Swiss mathematician, who analyzed them in his Ars Conjectandi (1713). [21]
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (titled Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive for the British edition) is a 2005 book by academic and popular science author Jared Diamond, in which the author first defines collapse: "a drastic decrease in human population size and/or political/economic/social complexity, over a considerable area, for an extended time."
I was ashamed and I felt like a failure, but my baby was alive and thriving. ... They are filled with success stories and horror stories and questions about dosing and side effects. It does work ...
Bayes supposed a sequence of independent experiments, each having as its outcome either success or failure, the probability of success being some number p between 0 and 1. But then he supposed p to be an uncertain quantity, whose probability of being in any interval between 0 and 1 is the length of the interval.
Failure is the social concept of not meeting a desirable or intended objective, and is usually viewed as the opposite of success. [1] The criteria for failure depends on context, and may be relative to a particular observer or belief system.
Henry Petroski (February 6, 1942 – June 14, 2023) was an American engineer specializing in failure analysis.A professor both of civil engineering and history at Duke University, he was also a prolific author.