Talk:Concentration

Wikipedia has an article with the same name

I was a minor contributor to the WP article. I have completely re-written, re-formatted and expanded the WP article before uploading it here into CZ. Milton Beychok 01:45, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

I think you're wrong about "general common usage"

When you write in the lede: "in general common usage, concentration is" so-and-so, I won't dispute that a fairly common usage is something like "the concentration of orange juice concentrate to water is one to three" or whatever.

A more common usage, I would submit, is "Pancho Gonzales displayed other-worldly powers of concentration as he came back from two sets down to...."

"Concentration" (and "focus") are such cliches these days that one can hardly listen to a sporting event without being battered by them on a once-a-minute basis, or so it seems to me. Hayford Peirce 01:54, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

Would you like me to change the wording to read "... and in fairly common usage ..."? Please let me know and I will do so. Its no big deal. However, I must say that what is "general common usage" depends on one's interests. Yes, "concentration" and "focus" are used quite a bit in sports reporting and commentating ... and "concentration" as used in science, engineering, technolgy and many industries is also used quite a bit (perhaps, even more so). So, I guess it depends on what turns you on.

Again, just let me know and I will change the wording. I would like to know what you think of the Concentration article as a whole. I am finding, as a I use Google to search Citizendium that a great many of our existing articles have links to Concentration as used in science, engineering and etc. And I am only partially through my Google search. Milton Beychok 02:43, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

"fairly" would be fine; there might also be some way of tweaking it to something like "and in one fairly common usage." I'll take another look at it tomorrow -- inspiration may come overnight.... As for the article as a whole, I am overwhelmed by all the expertise in it and all the info. Wow! Are you going to expand each of the headings, or is it pretty much in finished form? Hayford Peirce 03:14, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

I'll change the opening sentence to "fairly" for now and await your possible further inspiration. Do I plan to expand each of the headings? Not at the moment. The article now has everything I know on the subject. I will create the "Related Articles" and "Bibliography" subpages as soon as I can. As for upgrading the status from 2 to 1, I will wait 2-3 weeks to see if anyone comes up with any needed revisions or additions.

The monthly Write-a-Thon is tommorrow. Do you think you could get Aleta to credit this article as part of tomorrow's Write-a-thon even though I uploaded a6-7 hours ahead of time? (:>) Regards, Milton Beychok 03:42, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

I would think so -- the rules seem to be fairly informal, or at least a little bit stetchable from time to time.... Hayford Peirce 03:53, 4 February 2009 (UTC)