Talk:Concentration

Wikipedia has an article with the same name

I was a minor contributor to the WP article. I have completely re-written, re-formatted and expanded the WP article before uploading it here into CZ. Milton Beychok 01:45, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

I think you're wrong about "general common usage"

When you write in the lede: "in general common usage, concentration is" so-and-so, I won't dispute that a fairly common usage is something like "the concentration of orange juice concentrate to water is one to three" or whatever.

A more common usage, I would submit, is "Pancho Gonzales displayed other-worldly powers of concentration as he came back from two sets down to...."

"Concentration" (and "focus") are such cliches these days that one can hardly listen to a sporting event without being battered by them on a once-a-minute basis, or so it seems to me. Hayford Peirce 01:54, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

Would you like me to change the wording to read "... and in fairly common usage ..."? Please let me know and I will do so. Its no big deal. However, I must say that what is "general common usage" depends on one's interests. Yes, "concentration" and "focus" are used quite a bit in sports reporting and commentating ... and "concentration" as used in science, engineering, technolgy and many industries is also used quite a bit (perhaps, even more so). So, I guess it depends on what turns you on.

Again, just let me know and I will change the wording. I would like to know what you think of the Concentration article as a whole. I am finding, as a I use Google to search Citizendium that a great many of our existing articles have links to Concentration as used in science, engineering and etc. And I am only partially thorugh my Google search. Milton Beychok 02:43, 4 February 2009 (UTC)