He'd transform the sequester fight by changing the categories that undergird it.
Knowledge needs knowledge about the knowledge, and this requires loops — what I describe as the three loops of active intelligence: thinking about things, changing the categories with which we think about things, and changing how we think.
Changing the categories of "assessment," in our bureaucratic, technocratic age, is a crucial task.
That means you will be editing your posts (in this instance by changing the categories).
When the reference category (nonexposed) had few subjects, an analysis was performed after changing the reference category and, if the results were consistent, the nonexposed group remained as the reference.
The system of changing the housing category when new tenants move in to a property means neighbours in identical flats can pay vastly different rents.
Tables B, C, and H in appendix 2 show the new adverse events and the reasons for changing the discontinuation category.
Consequently, the analysis was re-run, using exactly the same model, but changing the 'base category' of the setting variable, to care homes.
By changing the reference category, the main conclusions in the paper would not be altered, but the effect sizes would be relative to pregnant women with a normal range BMI, as well as being more precisely estimated.
For some studies, we pooled estimates of different categories of cases or controls using the method by Hamling et al, 23 which allows combining of the estimates originally shown in the paper, changing the reference category and taking into account their correlation.
