The important information I should take from a strong trend is an axis, or a dimension, rather than the default takeaway of a direction.
I have the colloquial habit of talking about a trend as a direction, leaning on the implicit metaphor of physical space for whatever domain in which the trend appears. I’ve only just today started to realize that, while I am pretty sure the physical space (or, probably, geography and maps) metaphor is why I speak that way, there’s no reason not to lean into it as an explicit description within the abstract space for the domain. By this I mean that whatever it is we are talking about (the domain) has several important parts to it (dimensions), and taken together these form the space of the domain.
Returning to the direction v. dimension takeaway, this basically means that the important thing is the dimension (or dimensions) along which the trend moves, so it is worth looking at the opposite direction of the trend as well.
This is basically the same as the idea as taking good advice and reversing it, just looking at changes in the world instead.
The important information I should take from a strong trend is an axis, or a dimension, rather than the default takeaway of a direction.
I have the colloquial habit of talking about a trend as a direction, leaning on the implicit metaphor of physical space for whatever domain in which the trend appears. I’ve only just today started to realize that, while I am pretty sure the physical space (or, probably, geography and maps) metaphor is why I speak that way, there’s no reason not to lean into it as an explicit description within the abstract space for the domain. By this I mean that whatever it is we are talking about (the domain) has several important parts to it (dimensions), and taken together these form the space of the domain.
Returning to the direction v. dimension takeaway, this basically means that the important thing is the dimension (or dimensions) along which the trend moves, so it is worth looking at the opposite direction of the trend as well.
This is basically the same as the idea as taking good advice and reversing it, just looking at changes in the world instead.