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A desire path, also known as desire line in transportation planning and many other names, [a] is an unplanned small trail formed by erosion caused by human or animal traffic. The path usually represents the shortest or the most easily navigated route between an origin and destination, and the width and severity of its surface erosion are often ...
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A progress chart is a reward system. It involves stickers or stars, and a chart that can be either printed off or made by hand. The main goal of a progress chart is to track children's learning or behavior. It can be used to curb bad behaviors and to encourage good behaviors. It is inexpensive and can be changed to fit different situations. [1]
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How is a desire path different from a path?Autarch 14:37, 3 December 2009 (UTC) Fro what I understand, a desire path is a subset of path where paths can be designed or naturally occurring. Desire paths are the latter. --Jason Yip 01:28, 10 May 2010 (UTC) I think the term desire path refers to the erosion caused by human feet. Hence, an ...
The path of least resistance is the physical or metaphorical pathway that provides the least resistance to forward motion by a given object or entity, among a set of alternative paths. The concept is often used to describe why an object or entity takes a given path. The way in which water flows is often given as an example for the idea.
A context menu (also called contextual, shortcut, and pop up or pop-up menu) is a menu in a graphical user interface (GUI) that appears upon user interaction, such as a right-click mouse operation. A context menu offers a limited set of choices that are available in the current state, or context, of the operating system or application to which ...
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).