Regression
noun
A return to a previous state or condition.
After her mother's death, she experienced a regression and started behaving like a child again.
Often appears as...
- experienced a regression
- show regression
noun
In statistics, a measure of the relation between the mean value of one variable and corresponding values of other variables.
We used regression analysis to explore the relationships between these variables.
Often appears as...
- regression analysis
- linear regression
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Technical
noun
In psychology, it's a return to earlier stages of development and abandoned forms of gratification.
In his grief, he showed regression by behaving in ways similar to his childhood self.
Often appears as...
- psychological regression
- showed regression
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noun
A return to a previous state or condition.
After her mother's death, she experienced a regression and started behaving like a child again.
Often appears as...
- experienced a regression
- show regression
noun
In statistics, a measure of the relation between the mean value of one variable and corresponding values of other variables.
We used regression analysis to explore the relationships between these variables.
Often appears as...
- regression analysis
- linear regression
Usage tips
Technical
noun
In psychology, it's a return to earlier stages of development and abandoned forms of gratification.
In his grief, he showed regression by behaving in ways similar to his childhood self.
Often appears as...
- psychological regression
- showed regression
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Academic
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Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Context
Often suggests negative change or disappointment at losing progress.
His poor exam results marked a regression from his usual high standards.
Pro Tip 2/3Temporary Change
Used to imply that a lapse into an earlier state is not permanent.
She's experiencing a regression in her recovery but is determined to bounce back.
Pro Tip 3/3Metaphorical Use
Can be metaphorical, signifying a step back in situations like negotiations.
The sudden demands from the union were seen as a regression in the talks.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Context
Often suggests negative change or disappointment at losing progress.
His poor exam results marked a regression from his usual high standards.
Pro Tip 2/3Temporary Change
Used to imply that a lapse into an earlier state is not permanent.
She's experiencing a regression in her recovery but is determined to bounce back.
Pro Tip 3/3Metaphorical Use
Can be metaphorical, signifying a step back in situations like negotiations.
The sudden demands from the union were seen as a regression in the talks.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Context
Often suggests negative change or disappointment at losing progress.
His poor exam results marked a regression from his usual high standards.
Pro Tip 2/3Temporary Change
Used to imply that a lapse into an earlier state is not permanent.
She's experiencing a regression in her recovery but is determined to bounce back.
Pro Tip 3/3Metaphorical Use
Can be metaphorical, signifying a step back in situations like negotiations.
The sudden demands from the union were seen as a regression in the talks.
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Dean Ornish: The world's...
interventions can be like -- quantitative arteriography, before and after a year, and cardiac PET scans. We showed a few months ago -- we published the first study showing you can actually stop or reverse the progression of prostate cancer by making changes in diet and lifestyle, and 70 percent regression in the tumor growth, or inhibition of
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The path to ending...
has always been our greatest casting note for being cast as scapegoats. So for folks who are worried about this, this is not inevitably a moment for change and reform and enlightenment and America's best values, because historically, these have been precisely the moments when regression back to white supremacy has reigned supreme.
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How We Can Make the...
Further to the right means richer. And in there, I'm now going to put all the countries of the world, each one represented by a dot, and on top of that I'm going to put the regression line that shows the average relationship. And what this tells us is that as we get richer,
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Michael Green: What the...
with a much lower GDP. Now, my slide is getting a little cluttered and I'd like to step back a bit. So let me take away these countries, and then pop in the regression line. So this shows the average relationship between GDP and social progress. The first thing to notice,
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How will we survive when...
leads to a freer, more democratic, healthier way of life. Now, wizards regard all this as hooey. They see it as a recipe for narrowness, regression, and global poverty. Prophet-style agriculture, they say, only extends the human footprint
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Dian Fossey: Secrets in...
and a little Africa she became a pioneer Diane undoubtedly saved a species neither destiny nor fate took me to Africa nor was it romance I had a deep wish to see and live among mountain gorillas this woman found regression
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How your emotions change...
that were nearly as intense as those in the intensive lifestyle group. Their heart disease still progressed. Diet and exercise alone were not enough to facilitate coronary disease regression.
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C.K. Williams: Poetry...
And not having to know history's next mad rage or regression, it might be a relief. No. Again, no. I don't mean that for a moment. What I mean is the world holds me so tightly --
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How a "Hi Level" Mindset...
so I was not happy with the regression, to say the least. Again, this almost pushed me to the brink of quitting and insanity. But the Hi Level mindset made me think, "Man.
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Homemade Whiskey Still PIPE...
rocket that went to the moon and back so this is kind of a regression appeal would let it go Lou that just a moment running on a homemade whiskey still
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Dean Ornish: The world's...
interventions can be like -- quantitative arteriography, before and after a year, and cardiac PET scans. We showed a few months ago -- we published the first study showing you can actually stop or reverse the progression of prostate cancer by making changes in diet and lifestyle, and 70 percent regression in the tumor growth, or inhibition of
Video examples
The path to ending...
has always been our greatest casting note for being cast as scapegoats. So for folks who are worried about this, this is not inevitably a moment for change and reform and enlightenment and America's best values, because historically, these have been precisely the moments when regression back to white supremacy has reigned supreme.
Video examples
How We Can Make the...
Further to the right means richer. And in there, I'm now going to put all the countries of the world, each one represented by a dot, and on top of that I'm going to put the regression line that shows the average relationship. And what this tells us is that as we get richer,
Video examples
Michael Green: What the...
with a much lower GDP. Now, my slide is getting a little cluttered and I'd like to step back a bit. So let me take away these countries, and then pop in the regression line. So this shows the average relationship between GDP and social progress. The first thing to notice,
Video examples
How will we survive when...
leads to a freer, more democratic, healthier way of life. Now, wizards regard all this as hooey. They see it as a recipe for narrowness, regression, and global poverty. Prophet-style agriculture, they say, only extends the human footprint
Video examples
Dian Fossey: Secrets in...
and a little Africa she became a pioneer Diane undoubtedly saved a species neither destiny nor fate took me to Africa nor was it romance I had a deep wish to see and live among mountain gorillas this woman found regression
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How your emotions change...
that were nearly as intense as those in the intensive lifestyle group. Their heart disease still progressed. Diet and exercise alone were not enough to facilitate coronary disease regression.
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C.K. Williams: Poetry...
And not having to know history's next mad rage or regression, it might be a relief. No. Again, no. I don't mean that for a moment. What I mean is the world holds me so tightly --
Video examples
How a "Hi Level" Mindset...
so I was not happy with the regression, to say the least. Again, this almost pushed me to the brink of quitting and insanity. But the Hi Level mindset made me think, "Man.
Video examples
Homemade Whiskey Still PIPE...
rocket that went to the moon and back so this is kind of a regression appeal would let it go Lou that just a moment running on a homemade whiskey still
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Greg Grandin
American Historian
The question of causality is complex. For some philosophers and physicists, time might not exist. And since cause-and-effect reasoning needs the concept of time - of one thing preceding another - the effort to establish causality is a mug's game, an infinite regression of increasingly unanswerable questions.
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Noam Chomsky
American Activist
Popular struggles to bring about a freer and more just society have been resisted by violence and repression, and massive efforts to control opinion and attitudes. Over time, however, they have met with considerable success, even though there is a long way to go, and there is often regression.
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Marine Le Pen
French Politician
It is as a free French woman who has been able to enjoy, her whole life, the very precious freedoms fought for long and hard by our mothers and grandmothers, that I want to warn about a new form of social, human, and moral regression imposed on us by the migrant crisis.
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Alice Miller
Swiss Psychologist
Regression to the stage of early infancy is not a suitable method in and of itself. Such a regression can only be effective if it happens in the natural course of therapy and if the client is able to maintain adult consciousness at the same time.
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Noam Chomsky
American Activist
If you're in favour of any policy - reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever - if you're at least minimally moral, it's because you think it's somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.
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Hjalmar Branting
Swedish Statesman
But it is possible that, in the days ahead, these years we have lived through may eventually be thought of simply as a period of disturbance and regression.
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Steve Schmidt
American Businessman
Liberal democracy is in regression all over the world, and it's a dangerous thing.
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Fela Kuti
Nigerian Musician
Marriage is a terrible institution, it creates such a regression of the mind.
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Pooja Bedi
Indian Actress
I believe immensely in past life regression.
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Greg Grandin
American Historian
The question of causality is complex. For some philosophers and physicists, time might not exist. And since cause-and-effect reasoning needs the concept of time - of one thing preceding another - the effort to establish causality is a mug's game, an infinite regression of increasingly unanswerable questions.
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Noam Chomsky
American Activist
Popular struggles to bring about a freer and more just society have been resisted by violence and repression, and massive efforts to control opinion and attitudes. Over time, however, they have met with considerable success, even though there is a long way to go, and there is often regression.
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Marine Le Pen
French Politician
It is as a free French woman who has been able to enjoy, her whole life, the very precious freedoms fought for long and hard by our mothers and grandmothers, that I want to warn about a new form of social, human, and moral regression imposed on us by the migrant crisis.
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Alice Miller
Swiss Psychologist
Regression to the stage of early infancy is not a suitable method in and of itself. Such a regression can only be effective if it happens in the natural course of therapy and if the client is able to maintain adult consciousness at the same time.
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Noam Chomsky
American Activist
If you're in favour of any policy - reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever - if you're at least minimally moral, it's because you think it's somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.
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Hjalmar Branting
Swedish Statesman
But it is possible that, in the days ahead, these years we have lived through may eventually be thought of simply as a period of disturbance and regression.
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Steve Schmidt
American Businessman
Liberal democracy is in regression all over the world, and it's a dangerous thing.
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Fela Kuti
Nigerian Musician
Marriage is a terrible institution, it creates such a regression of the mind.
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Pooja Bedi
Indian Actress
I believe immensely in past life regression.
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