Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

A pattern of alcohol consumption that is moderate and avoids the extremes of total abstinence and of inebriation.  

Studies that use inbreeding or selective breeding in order to determine the relative roles of heredity and environment in creating individual differences.  

Computer activities that dictate the order in which other computer functions are performed.  

In research, the condition of subjects whose behavior is not manipulated. Used for purposes of comparison, control.  

Making something happen the way it was planned to happen. To have the ability or authority to direct someone or something. To limit or restrain something. The term used by the American Hospital Association (AHA) in its listing of hospitals in the Guide to the Health Care Field (AHA Guide) to indicate the kind of…

In research, conditions that make an effect more likely to occur but are neither necessary nor sufficient to cause it to appear, contingent condition.  

In research, cases that are sufficiently beyond the boundaries of a term that they help delineate its boundary. Used in conceptual analysis to help establish defining characteristics of a term.    

In sociology, a cultural group whose behavior, norms, and beliefs are contradictory to the larger, established culture.  

A marriage in which the partners agree to periodically renew their marriage agreement, adding and subtracting from it or keeping it as it is.  

The official appointed by the sponsoring agency who is responsible for business management aspects of a particular contract.