All 8 Uses of
consequence
in
Outliers
- But these exact same biases also show up in areas of much more consequence, like education.
Chpt 1 *consequence = importance
- Do you see the consequences of the way we have chosen to think about success?
Chpt 1consequences = results
- We could easily take control of the machinery of achievement, in other words, not just in sports but, as we will see, in other more consequential areas as well.
Chpt 1consequential = important
- What a child did was considered by his or her parents as something separate from the adult world and not particularly consequential.
Chpt 4
- The most important consequence of the miracle of the garment industry, though, was what happened to the children growing up in those homes where meaningful work was practiced.
Chpt 5consequence = result
- "In low-power distance index countries," Hofstede wrote in his classic text Culture's Consequences: "power is something of which power holders are almost ashamed and they will try to underplay."
Chpt 7consequences = results
- The long summer vacation, a peculiar and distinctive American legacy that has had profound consequences for the learning patterns of the students of the present day.
Chpt 9 *consequences = effects (results)
- One very real possibility is that these are the educational consequences of the differences in parenting styles that we talked about in the Chris Langan chapter.
Chpt 9consequences = results
Definitions:
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(1)
(consequence as in: a direct consequence of) a result of something (often an undesired side effect)
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(2)
(consequence as in: of little consequence) importance or relevance
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(3)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
In classic literature, consequential may refer to someone with too much feeling of self-importance as when Dickens wrote "Because he's a proud, haughty, consequential, turned-up-nosed peacock."
Self-consequence was used in a similar manner, but is more easily understood by modern readers since important is one of the modern senses of consequence.
Another classic sense of consequent that is similar to importance or significance refers to "material wealth or prominence" as when Jane Austen wrote: "They had each had money, but their marriages had made a material difference in their degree of consequence."