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Gifts for methodology fans

Know someone who loves methodology? Pick their favourite topic for gift ideas, with a fact to share when they open it.

  • Automotive Electrical Theory

    A car's alternator uses a diode rectifier to convert the AC current it generates into the DC current the car's electrical system needs.

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  • Design Thinking

    Design thinking emphasizes collaboration and iteration, often involving prototyping and user testing multiple times throughout the process, rather than following a strictly linear path.

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  • Game Theory (Computational)

    Computing a Nash equilibrium for a game with three or more players is proven to be PPAD-complete, which means it is computationally intractable and likely impossible to solve efficiently even for powerful computers.

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  • Information

    The amount of information stored in the world doubles roughly every two years.

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  • Intersectionality

    The term "intersectionality," coined by Kimberlé Crenshaw, highlights how various aspects of a person's social and political identities combine to create unique modes of discrimination or privilege.

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  • Reductionism

    Reductionism, while useful in science, sometimes overlooks emergent properties – complex systems exhibiting behaviors not predictable from their individual components alone. Think of a flock of birds: the overall flocking behavior isn't easily understood by studying just one bird.

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  • Structuralism

    Structuralism, despite its influence, was largely abandoned by the 1960s, replaced by other schools of thought like post-structuralism and various forms of cognitive science.

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  • Systems Thinking

    Systems thinking emphasizes understanding the interconnectedness of things, recognizing that seemingly simple actions can have unintended consequences elsewhere in the system – a concept often illustrated by the metaphor of a butterfly flapping its wings and causing a hurricane.

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  • Transdisciplinarity

    Transdisciplinarity often involves blurring the lines between academic disciplines to the point where the resulting work can be difficult to categorize using traditional subject classifications.

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  • Virtual Ethnography

    Virtual ethnography can utilize data from seemingly mundane online sources like online gaming forums to understand complex social dynamics and cultural practices.

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