Talk:Heuristic

message: Heuristic algorithms are found everywhere in computer science.  The article ought to have a short section on heuristics in computer science.
Tedtoal (talk) 01:10, 17 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Computer Science

message: In the philosophy section, the word "model" pointed to physical modelling; i´ve changed to the Disambiguation page for "Model" since what´s refered in here applies to pretty much all Models, from theoretical to physical and beyond.200.126.169.115 (talk) 02:47, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: There is this definition of the word, though I don't know what to do with it. J. Finkelstein 06:59, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

text: There is no great errors here. "Heureka" is the perfect tense of "Heurisko" ("I find" and "I've found"). "Heuriskein" is the infinitive ("to find"). And I think this talk of mispronounciation is not correct. I'd only suggest changing the greek word in parenthesis from "heurisko" to "heureka". (εὕρηκα). --Duducoutinho 17:25, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

text: You are right that most English words that end in -ic are adjectives.  Some exceptions: rhetoric, arithmetic, logic.  "Heuristic" was coined by analogy to those.  In the last few decades, some people have been treating it by analogy to physics, mathematics, etc.  See my long note under "the scientific method" for more details. --Ben Kovitz (talk) 23:04, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Link to Model(physical)

message: :Lexical note: The name of the topic is heuristic (not "heuristics"); a particular technique of directing your attention toward discovery is a heuristic, two or more of these are heuristics, and the adjective for "pertaining to how something is discovered" is heuristic.
This seems odd; wasn't there something about Wikipedia not being a dictionary? Is there something interesting about this bit of grammatical trivia? (If this is meant to correct some "common mistake", it probably shouldn't be included; we don't have notes on the pages of subjects whose names are hard to spell indicating that this is so.)
:It certainly is odd. For one thing, it's POV; for another, it is contradicted in SOED, Wiktionary, and a zillion other respectable sources. I have replaced it (citing the authority of SOED), as part of the general copyediting I have just given the whole article. I do think it's proper to give such information: but let it be accurate! – Noetica 05:50, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Lexical note relevant?

message: The reference to Plato and his Republic implies that Plato did not like his Republic, and was only using it as a model to show that a perfectly just society is not desirable. This is incorrect. He thought it was implausible, but he definitely thought it was desirable also.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Shippa52 (talk • contribs) 13:02, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Authors don't agree on the subject. See Karl L. Popper for this interpretation and Leo Strauss / Allan Bloom for the interpretation recorded in the article. Anyway, it's a good exemple of what heuristic could be in philosophy, regardless of personal opinion.Brett Mercier (talk) 06:35, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Plato

message: On 06:47, 29 February 2008, user 24.18.106.126 added 'Look to the unknown" to the list from Polya's book.  Do you have a page reference? Colfer2 (talk) 20:51, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think it's legit.  I just deleted it.  Polya does have an idea about clearly identifying what is the data, what is the unknown, and what is the given relation between them.  It would be nice to add that, if it could be worded well.  It might be too confusing as an introductory example, though. --Ben Kovitz (talk) 16:34, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Look to the unknown 

message: Just to verify, what is the most common way to pronounce "Heuristic?" The article apparently says "Hue-ristic," I've heard it said "You-ristic" and even "Oy-ristic."  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.170.67.189 (talk) 09:18, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: "Hue-ristic" is the only one I've ever come across, either in conversation or in reference books. —Ben Kovitz (talk) 18:48, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation 

message: this is  comment/request, not an attempt to add or insert:
I would like to see a more expert delving into the etymology
 the greeks had a real purpose/specificity for the term
 'rule of thumb' i feel to be grossly inadequate in order to understand the depth and power of the concept
'discovery' implies far more than 'find'. one might find their socks in a drawer, but when one discovers the resolution to what was previously a mystery, something of more import has come about than warming one's own feet, if i may put it so. The word comes so useful (but poorly known) to us, and some of its history must/should still cling to its meaning in order for the term to maintain its power, it is a complex not simple concept
i researched this word a long time ago, and it may be i did not do such a great job, for i have never studied ancient greek and at that time had not studied latin yet, and likely i have mythologized the meaning over the many years to suit my own purposes. It is a concept word, something about 'state of mind', not an object word, like 'dog' or some such. Someone better than me can do a better job of it, i think.
 the term has something to do with the master/student relation, it has something to do with leading toward rather than leading to; the drawing out of education rather than the rote of memorization; the ability to foster learning rather than to teach. it has been a very useful concept to me for some time
and that, i am afraid, is as much as i think i might know
so sorry if this is a formatting mess
Indeseo (talk) 08:32, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  heuristic/s 

message: I removed the section tagged as off topic, as it had been tagged that way since May 09 and it did not add clarity to the article.  It may be relevant to a critique section - someone may want to add it there.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.190.158.2 (talk) 01:10, 14 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: off topic

message: should heuristic play fit in this article or get its own article?  heuristic play is very common among UK day care "nurseries" and Sure Start centres.  I don't know what the search engine statistics are, but I'm pretty sure that people do search for the term "heuristic play".  82.33.53.29 (talk) 15:00, 13 August 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: If you can find a source or two, try starting a new section for it on Heuristic. After some text is up, it'll be clearer whether it should be in a separate article. —Ben Kovitz (talk) 10:24, 17 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  heuristic play 

message: The text is as follows... already in the article... and here I have dropped in four citations numbered in text and then in full below:
In the study of media effects, judgmental heuristics have been shown to play an active role in the simplifying of news and political communication.  Use of these cues and other signals from elites allow average people the opportunity to achieve a modest level of rationality in reaching a decision.  This can be accomplished without having to devote any significant measure of cognitive effort normally required to arrive at thoughtful and considered choices. (1)  The limited capacity theory model (2)  and other information processing models have been influential in the study of how people encode, store and retrieve political information.  Most people maintain a minimum level of interest in public affairs, and therefore employ simplifying shortcuts to arrive at political judgments.(3)   Common examples include referring to the complex military and intelligence activities by NATO forces in the Middle East simply as “the war on terror,” a reversal of a specific policy or position as a “flip-flop,” and the homogenization of any type of broad government assistance program as “socialism.”
Risk assessment of new technologies offers another example of how ordinary citizens seek shortcuts to expediently arrive at judgments.  Most people maintain a low level of interest in issues that are not center to their daily lives, such as developments in the various fields of science and technology.  Media frames can produce powerful heuristics that can have significant impact on public opinion about a given new technology.  Research has shown media frames that suggest high risk often lead to strong negative perceptions and possible rejection of a technology. (4)  An example is the casting of genetically modified foods as “Frankenfoods” and using illustrations containing visual cues to Frankenstein’s monster.
Citations are as follows:
 (1)Popkin, S. L. (1991). The reasoning voter: Communication and persuasion in presidential campaigns. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
 (2)  Lang, A. (2009).  The limited capacity model of motivated media message processing. In R. Nabi & M. B. Oliver (Eds), The Sage handbook of media processes and effects (pp. 193-204). Los Angeles: Sage.
 (3) Mondak, J. (1994). Cognitive heuristics, heuristic processing, and efficiency in political decision making.  In M.X. Delli Carpini. L. Huddy, & R.Y. Shapiro (Eds.), Research in Micropolitics: New directions in political psychology (pp. 117-142). Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.
  (4) Brossard, D., Scheufele, D.A., Kim, E., and Lewenstein, B.V. (2009) “Religiosity as a perceptual filter: Examining processes of opinion formation about nanotechnology,” Public Understanding of Science 18 (5): 546-558.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by DaveWilcoxUW (talk • contribs) 07:03, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  I need to add in my citations but can't seem to make it work - Mass Communication 

message: This articles describes the term heuristic as used in several different fields of science. As the exact meaning can differ significantly, each should probably have it's own article. —Ruud 11:34, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Split 

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Op47 (talk) 11:02, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Split 

message: The article is pretty poor, both in terms of structure and synthesis. The "mass communication" section is essentially just a special case of psychological heuristics, for example, and seems to have disproprionate coverage. And the range of ways the term is used within the entry is so broad ranging that the article as a whole seems to lack any underlying focus or organising principle. It's basically quite poor and badly needs some attention from an expert or an informed editor.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.251.133.27 (talk) 16:47, 23 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Needs attention of expert? 

message: I deleted the pronunciation respelling (PR) of heuristic (roughly "hyoo-ris-tik") because I don't like PRs, for reasons I explained in the talk for Wikipedia:Pronunciation respelling key; and because the PR was in slashes, which is contrary to Wikipedia convention for PR; and the IPA convention that slashes are for true IPA, not PR. Also, anyone educated enough to study heuristics should be educated enough to read IPA, or learn it with minimal effort. Is my edit approved?--Solomonfromfinland (talk) 14:53, 16 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deleted PR 

message: Howdy. I find it confusing the way that this article deals with the way that the term heuristic is used across disciplines. Or perhaps even something that clarifies that the way the page is laid out is describing how it's used across disiplines. As a humble user, I would have expected a disambiguation page....
You could also try a short summery description of how it's used in various areas that is placed in the page description. 167.246.61.8 (talk) 19:03, 23 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Mention different uses

message: I think something should be said about how heuristics are not categorical propositions.Lbertolotti (talk) 19:09, 8 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Categorical proposition 

message: Why no mention of the word "Eureka"? 216.21.161.163 (talk) 20:37, 26 August 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Would you care to elaborate? --Keithonearth (talk) 23:57, 26 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  I Didn't Find It. 

message: Wouldn't it just make everything easier if a straight-up comparison is given (between non-heuristic and heuristic), starting with clear examples of solving a problem not involving 'heuristic' approaches? At the moment, the discussion page doesn't appear to provide clear-cut examples that allow everyone to clearly understand the difference between heuristic and non-heuristic. In fact, the entire google search domain appears to be lacking comparison examples. Eg.... google 'non-heuristic versus heuristic' ..... and how many results we get? None. So, then.... does "heuristic approach to problem solving" mean something like "solving a problem that doesn't follow a conventional well-known formal recipe"? So, using a technique for finding a bunch of minima along a continuous maths function could involve a derivative....conventional well-known formal recipe (non-heuristic approach). While using our eyes to to observe a plot of the function (and using our eyes/brains) to quickly identify (via common sense and experience) the troughs (or dips) in the plotted curve is associated with heuristic approach, right? KorgBoy (talk) 03:07, 8 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comparison 

message: I'm not much of a wikipedia editor but it's easy to see that the controversies section is absolutely terrible. - Heat 89.98.118.42 (talk) 18:14, 13 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Controversies section 

message: A discussion is taking place to address the redirect :Heuristic search. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 June 22#Heuristic search until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion.  Ost (talk) 19:56, 22 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Heuristic search" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]] 

message: I have requested a move of Heuristics in judgment and decision-making, most likely to Heuristic (psychology). Please come and contribute to the RM discussion.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Xurizuri (talk • contribs) 02:10, 17 October 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Please take a look there, because I am trying to make the discussion more general than a simple page move. Because to decide the page title you have to establish the article scope first. - Altenmann >talk 20:45, 23 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move notification for [[Heuristics in judgment and decision-making]] 

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