⚡ Disagreement 🪨 Rock misalignment 📊 Ranking mismatch

discordancy

9.5

A case where two items are in a different order in two lists

noun
/dɪsˈkɔrdənsi/

Specialized

: discordancia

Statisticians use measures of discordancy to evaluate the consistency between different sets of rankings.

Examples

The researcher counted the number of discordancy pairs to assess the relationship between the two variables.
High discordancy in the data suggested that the two rankings were not closely related.
The discordancy in the data was evident.
Researchers found a significant discordancy between the two studies.
The researcher counted the number of discordancy pairs to assess the relationship between the two variables.
High discordancy in the data suggested that the two rankings were not closely related.
Statisticians use measures of discordancy to evaluate the consistency between different sets of rankings.

Synonyms

discrepancy

vsdiscordancy

76 5.6

A difference between two things that should be the same, like numbers or stories

is a narrow statistical case about pairs having different orderings across two rankings

How Consistent

concordance

1 7.7

agreement

Specialized

6 1.6

discordancy

Specialized

9.5

inconsistency

30 4.8

contradiction

117 4.3

Surface Forms

discordancy singular

discordancies plural

Morphology

discordancy = discord (transparent) = discord + ancy

Built from 'discord' + '-ancy' indicating the condition or state of discord; the statistical usage is a domain-specific application of 'lack of agreement'.

Etymology

Discordancy comes from the Latin parts dis- 'not' and cor 'heart', so it originally meant 'not of one heart'. In statistics this idea becomes simple: a pair is a discordancy when the two items do not 'agree' in the two rankings, so their order is different.