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The Matthew Effect
vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| tumultuous | something loud and chaotic |
| perpetuate | continue and sustain indefinitely |
| invariably | in every case or always |
| arbitrary | random or without a pattern or reason |
| ubiquitous | something that is present or found everywhere |
| claim | an assertion, stating something as true |
| anecdote | a brief account, story of a particular incident |
| purpose | the reason that something is done |
| tone | the author's attitude toward the subject matter which comes across in the text |
| credibility | trustworthiness and believability of a source |
| correlation | connection or interdependence between two things |
| outlier | a person or thing set far apart from the main body of the group |
| bias | a tendency toward one perspective or opinion |
| meritocracy | a system based on personal skill or merit |
| relative age phenomenon | A strange phenomenon that shows that AGE is mistaken for SKILL when 3 criteria are met: when there is selection (relative to a registration deadline & age) , streaming and differentiated experience. |
| accumulative advantage | when a small advantage at the beginning leads to more and more opportunities that others do not have, and then makes a bigger and bigger which then makes the "small" advantage actually turn into a "huge" advantage. |
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