Menu
Result
Last update: Friday 10th of September 2010
A result is the final consequence of a sequence of actions or events (broadly incidents and accidents) expressed qualitatively or quantitatively, being a loss, injury, disadvantage, advantage, gain, victory or simply a value. There may be a range of possible outcomes associated with an event possibly depending on the point of view, historical distance or relevance.
Reaching no result proves that actions are inefficient, ineffective, meaningless or flawed.
- in general any kind of research, action or phenomenon can lead to one or more results.
- in games (e.g. cricket, lotteries) or wars the result describes the victorious party and possibly effects on the environment.
- in mathematics: the final value of a calculation (e.g. arithmetic operation), function or statistical expression
- statistics uses polls, tests and logs to analyze, extract and interpolate information.
- in computer sciences: the return value of a function, state of a system or list of records matching a query (e.g. web search). The result type is the data type of the data returned by a function.
- in physics: the outcome of an experiment
- in forensics and justice: the proof of guilt or innocence of a suspect after evaluating evidence in a criminal investigation.
- in economics/accounting: the profit or loss at the end of a fiscal period. (see also: NOR)
- in democracy : the election of a representative or vote on a subject.
Result Properties
As with any other piece of information results have certain properties in absolute terms or in relation to previous results or settings:
| impact | positive (+) | neutral (0) | negative (-) |
|---|---|---|---|
| profitability | profit | balance | loss |
| contest | win | tie | loss |
| confrontation | victory | armistice | defeat |
| competition | success | status quo | failure |
| change | increase | stagnation | decrease |
| causality | direct | random | indirect |
| reliability | reliable | undetermined | unreliable |
| credibility | confirmed / verified | unknown | denied / falsified |
| consistency | consistent | equivalent | inconsistent |
| sensitivity | public / open | unclassified | classified / secret |
| accuracy | accurate / true | undefined / null | inaccurate / false |
| relevance | important | normal | neglectable / meaningless |
different meanings result, results, resulted
Quality
In many cases the following formula is used:
result = quality * acceptance
A product, service or activity can be delivered with a high (technical) quality, but if the acceptance is small, the end-result is also small. This formula is commonly used to explain junior technical engineers that more needs to be done to reach a (project) target than just implement a good technical solution. The acceptance in the formula is most of the time increased by involving end-users/customers in the specification of the targets and assigning end-user-tests to them.
See also
- Determinism
Recently whirlpool Australia carried out a survey about the state of affairs of Broadband and ISP's in Australia. The survey was conducted over a four week period — from 31 December 2006 to 4 February 2007, during which the survey was successfully completed and verified a total of 20,030 submissions.Few interesting things came out from Survey.
Martin Durkin is the executive producer of "The Great Global Warming Swindle" and was involved in an amusing email exchange with 2 British climate change scientists. The results was a lot of swearing including the insult from the title.This post also shows "where Channel 4 got it wrong".
Is it wise to take Vitamin E during radiation therapy? The results of a study on the effects of Vitamin E on patients with head and neck cancers undergoing radiation therapy are analyzed.
The share price of Baidu decreased slightly on Wednesday, due in part to a recent controversy that has arisen concerning "click fraud". Click fraud refers to illegitimate clicks on pay-per-click ads that result in increasing the cost of advertising but return no benefit to the advertiser. It has been revealed recently that the click fraud rate of B
Some thing never to be forgot if possibility will follow it it will be tough but you will definitely get a better result