We could think of our various categorization schemes as being one of these: nominal (named but with no order among them), ordinal (having an order, e.g. at what point in the process of working with a group they apply), interval (having some measurable distance between any two), ratio (implies the addition of a zero point such that Patterns in one category could be twice as "something" as another Pattern). Seems likely that our schemes would all be nominal or ordinal so this particular set of qualities may not help us much, but I'm throwing it out there to raise the inquiry of different qualities that categorization schemes might have.

Specifically, I think Dave Pollard described different kinds of categorization schemes when I met with him and Tree Bressen last night at her house, but frankly I was not fully paying attention (I had just gotten my hands on the current card set and was busy categorizing them). Dave, would you like to share that again, here?

  --John Abbe.....Sat Dec 04 14:24:12 -0800 2010

Hi John: I've added a section on the criteria I discussed with you last night on the card above.

  --Dave Pollard.....Sun Dec 05 15:05:00 -0800 2010

Cool. An opinion and a question:

I can see how a category with only one or two patterns in it suggests there may be something broken about the categorization. But I don't see any value in trying to force equaliish numbers of patterns into each category. There may be very useful categorization schemes that just naturally have two or three times as many patterns in one category as in another.

Is the goal here to narrow in on one categorization scheme, or are we open to (or even assuming there will be) more than one?

  --John Abbe.....Sun Dec 05 23:05:39 -0800 2010

I think the goal is to have multiple categorization schemes, at least until enough of us have coalesced around one or two, and perhaps indefinitely. As for criterion 4, it aspires to "reasonably consistent" numbers, which doesn't rule out greater differences than 2:1. I have seen a couple of schemes that have one or two categories with a very large number of patterns and all the rest are kind of leftovers, and I don't think that's a very useful scheme, which is what this criterion is aimed at.

  --Dave Pollard.....Mon Dec 06 14:15:20 -0800 2010

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