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Dimensional analysis may be used as a sanity check of physical equations: the two sides of any equation must be commensurable or have the same dimensions. A person who has calculated the power output of a car to be 700 kJ may have omitted a factor, since the unit joules is a measure of energy, not power (energy per unit time).
Sanity (from Latin: sānitās) refers to the soundness, rationality, and health of the human mind, as opposed to insanity.A person is sane if they are rational.In modern society, the term has become exclusively synonymous with compos mentis (Latin: compos, having mastery of, and Latin: mentis, mind), in contrast with non compos mentis, or insanity, meaning troubled conscience.
The problem wasn't that sanity is the lack of insanity (which I've added). The problem was that the link incorrectly implied that sanity was synonymous with mental illness, which it is not. Sanity is not a medical term. It is a legal term. You can have extreme mental illness and still be considered quite sane.
The path to sanity is not less information; but more. Patrick Tuohey is co-founder of Better Cities Project, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit focused on municipal policy solutions, and a senior fellow at the ...
1. “We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.” 2. “He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.”
I’d love to help bring sanity back!” ... Indeed, data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that the U.S. Consumer Price Index has risen by 20% since the beginning of 2021, reflecting how ...
George Box. The phrase "all models are wrong" was first attributed to George Box in a 1976 paper published in the Journal of the American Statistical Association.In the paper, Box uses the phrase to refer to the limitations of models, arguing that while no model is ever completely accurate, simpler models can still provide valuable insights if applied judiciously. [2]
Article speedy deletion criteria do not apply to drafts. Most such criteria don't check notability – they check sanity. The corollary of this is that matters such as "could never conceivably be an article", "obviously made up in one day", or "not in English" are of much less concern in draftspace. This is not