Concept Creep, Or “You Keep Using That Word. I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means.”

Concept creep has to be one of my biggest pet peeves.


What’s concept creep? It’s pretty much what it sounds like. Concept creep occurs when a concept that originally meant something very specific later comes to encompass a much broader set of unrelated, or only loosely related, phenomena.


Psychology has been particularly plagued by concept creep.  » Read more


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Published on November 30, 2018 08:50
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