On a different level, “philanthropy” is less weird in the name of a philanthropy org. It’s also doing work. If someone has to look up what “philanthropy” means, then they become less confused. If they do that for “coefficient” then they’re just even more confused. It’s also the case that basically anyone can understand what “philanthropy” means given a one-sentence description, which isn’t as easily the case for “coefficient” (I actually don’t know a good definition for “coefficient” off the top of my head, despite the fact that I can name several coefficients).
“coefficient” is 10x more common than “philanthropy” in the google books corpus. but idk maybe this flips if we filter out academic books?
also maybe you mean it’s weird in some sense the above fact isn’t really relevant to — then nvm
Filter for fiction and they’re about the same which I was actually surprised by.
On a different level, “philanthropy” is less weird in the name of a philanthropy org. It’s also doing work. If someone has to look up what “philanthropy” means, then they become less confused. If they do that for “coefficient” then they’re just even more confused. It’s also the case that basically anyone can understand what “philanthropy” means given a one-sentence description, which isn’t as easily the case for “coefficient” (I actually don’t know a good definition for “coefficient” off the top of my head, despite the fact that I can name several coefficients).