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  2. Rule of thumb - Wikipedia

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    Cartoon by James Gillray satirizing Sir Francis Buller, 1782: "Judge Thumb; or, Patent Sticks for Family Correction: Warranted Lawful!". A modern folk etymology [14] relates the phrase to domestic violence via an alleged rule under English common law which permitted wife-beating provided that the implement used was a rod or stick no thicker than a man's thumb. [6]

  3. Biological rules - Wikipedia

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    The pygmy mammoth is an example of insular dwarfism, a case of Foster's rule, its unusually small body size an adaptation to the limited resources of its island home.. A biological rule or biological law is a generalized law, principle, or rule of thumb formulated to describe patterns observed in living organisms.

  4. I’m in my 40s looking to retire in 20 years and live off ...

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    The general rule-of-thumb is to try to replace around 70% to 80% minimum of what you were earning, so with a $500K income, that would be closer to $350k minimum.

  5. Heuristic - Wikipedia

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    Gigerenzer & Gaissmaier (2011) state that sub-sets of strategy include heuristics, regression analysis, and Bayesian inference. [14]A heuristic is a strategy that ignores part of the information, with the goal of making decisions more quickly, frugally, and/or accurately than more complex methods (Gigerenzer and Gaissmaier [2011], p. 454; see also Todd et al. [2012], p. 7).

  6. This Popular Rule of Thumb May Not Work for Your Retirement - AOL

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    But that doesn't mean you should use it. The problems with the 4% rule. While the 4% rule might work for some people, there are a few reasons it may not work for you. First, the rule is based on a ...

  7. Secundum quid - Wikipedia

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    Secundum quid (also called secundum quid et simpliciter, meaning "[what is true] in a certain respect and [what is true] absolutely") is a type of informal fallacy that occurs when the arguer fails to recognize the difference between rules of thumb (soft generalizations, heuristics that hold true as a general rule but leave room for exceptions) and categorical propositions, rules that hold ...

  8. Skewness - Wikipedia

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    Note, however, that the converse is not true in general, i.e. zero skewness (defined below) does not imply that the mean is equal to the median. A 2005 journal article points out: [2] Many textbooks teach a rule of thumb stating that the mean is right of the median under right skew, and left of the median under left skew.

  9. Category:Rules of thumb - Wikipedia

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