If the Internet had been around when T. S. Eliot wrote "The Waste Land," the idea of literary difficulty might have been moot.
In this most physically demanding of industries, software, as much as hardware, is changing the game.To give an idea of the difficulty of deepwater drilling, Mr Walker uses an analogy.
That gives senators the chance to express their opinions about the potential choices and gives the White House an idea of the difficulty that a potential nominee might have getting confirmed.
To give me an idea of the difficulty of reaching readers, he pointed out that, despite Nigeria's ballooning population, he was able to sell a similar number of books in the same amount of time when he first entered the publishing business, back in 1988.
This builds on the idea of "desirable difficulty" in psychology – by making a task a little bit harder, it can engage your attention and construct firmer foundations for later recall.
On the other side of the field, Malcolm Gladwell, the counter-intuitive craftsman, in his book David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants, promotes the idea of "desirable difficulty," wherein disadvantages propel people to extraordinary achievement and creativity.
Some idea of the difficulty of achieving one specific pair-wise association in these complexes can be had by estimating the number non-productive alternatives that must be avoided.
This tends to be crude, however, as it gives an idea of text difficulty without taking the entire document into context [ 25].
The inclusion of gene product concentration brings the model closer to actual transcriptional networks, and perhaps gives us a better idea of the difficulty of obtaining complex networks that yield viable individuals in the real world.
Also, the use of an annual average of 3.7 medications in patients with FMS (significantly higher than the 1.4 medications used by the reference population) gives us an idea of the difficulty of treating this syndrome and the degree of inefficiency of the current therapeutic armaments available for this health care problem.
