- Result
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 orphenomenon can lead to one or more results.
* ingame s (e.g. cricket, lotteries) orwar s the result describes the victorious party and possibly effects on the environment.
* inmathematics : the final value of acalculation (e.g. arithmetic operation), function or statistical expression
*statistics usespoll s,test s andlog s to analyze, extract and interpolateinformation .
* incomputer 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 thedata type of the data returned by a function.
* inscience : the outcome of anexperiment
* inforensics andjustice : the proof of guilt or innocence of a suspect after evaluating evidence in acriminal investigation .
* ineconomics /accounting : the profit or loss at the end of a fiscal period. (see also: NOR)
* indemocracy : theelection of a representative orvote 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:
different meanings result, results, resultedimpact 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 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.
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Determinism
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