TermCraft conventionFoundational
Benchmark
A starting measurement so you can tell whether things improved.
Definition
A measurement taken to establish a baseline against which future change is compared.
Craft convention. True because the industry converged on it. Breaking it costs familiarity, not correctness.
In plain language
A starting measurement so you can tell whether things improved.
Example
Measuring task success and time before a redesign, so the after figures mean something.
Continue from here
Each link says what the connection is, so you can tell a principle from an alternative from a thing people mix this up with.
Deeper reading
The full entry behind this definition.
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Nearby in the Atlas
Adjacent territory, found through shared tags rather than a stated link.