All 4 Uses of
analysis
in
The Tipping Point
- Potterat, for example, once did an analysis of a gonorrhea epidemic in Colorado Springs, Colorado, looking at everyone who came to a public health clinic for treatment of the disease over the space of six months.†
Chpt 1analysis = the process or result of a detailed examination of something
- The pioneer of this kind of analysis — of what is called the study of cultural microrhythms — is a man named William Condon.†
Chpt 2 *
- One of the most famous diffusion studies is Bruce Ryan and Neal Gross's analysis of the spread of hybrid seed corn in Greene County, Iowa, in the 1930s.†
Chpt 6
- Perhaps the most sophisticated analysis of this process of translation comes from the study of rumors, which are — obviously — the most contagious of all social messages.†
Chpt 6
Definitions:
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(1)
(analysis as in: analysis of relevant data) the process or result of examining and thinking about something to better understand it
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(2)
(analysis as in: psychiatrist suggested analysis) psychiatric treatment -- (using any of many theories of the human mind that use talk therapy to understand the unconscious mind)