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absolute threshold

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noun

  1. psychol the minimum intensity of a stimulus at which it can just be perceived Compare difference threshold

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“Clearly there is no absolute threshold,” he says.

From National Geographic

“I think the appropriate conclusion to draw from the simulation methods we have developed is that quantum supremacy should properly be viewed as a matter of degree, and not as an absolute threshold,” says Pednault.

From Nature

Even supporters of the study—and some of its authors—are wary of any absolute threshold. 

From Science Magazine

There’s no absolute threshold where physicians can determine that a given infection is severe enough, inflammatory enough, to qualify as sepsis.

From Forbes

But once incomes rise beyond a modest absolute threshold, many of the things that people want are what economists call positional goods.

From New York Times