Talk:Heterogeneity (disambiguation)

Improve Chemistry Section
I feel a better description of the basics of a heterogeneous mixture is needed. Perhaps one that includes some of the information from the "mixture" page so that someone who is not familiar with chemistry can understand. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 150.212.8.72 (talk) 14:16, 12 June 2009 (UTC)

Name
Should the name of this article be heterogeneity? I'm not sure what the general guidelines are, but it seems more natural that the name of the article should be a noun when possible. Threepounds 07:21, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

Yes. It should certainly match the article on homogeneity.--RichardVeryard 23:40, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

Disambiguation
As with the article on homogeneity, there are lots of pages that link here, referring to various notions of heterogeneity that are not explicitly identified on this page. Many of them refer to people - cultural, demographic, ethnic heterogeneity - and come from such diverse disciplines as sociology, anthropology, politics and marketing. We probably need a series of articles to cover these various notions - but how many?--RichardVeryard 23:40, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

Heterogeneous Plural
You could include a remark about the heterogeneous plural that occurs in the grammar of some languages, such as ancient Greek or Italian, for example. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Californicus (talk • contribs) 10:10, 22 November 2021 (UTC)

Overlap of material with homogeneity
Suppose we decided we needed some material on homogeneity/heterogeneity in culture. Would we want an article on Cultural homogeneity and also an article on Cultural heterogeneity? I think it would generally be easier to write (and more useful to read) a single article covering both.--RichardVeryard 23:40, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

Can heterogeneous mixtures be seperated into simpler substances by purely physical means? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.189.140.218 (talk) 20:16, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Theoretically. Hesperian 23:07, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

Caution: Incorrect defenitions of Genetic Meanings!
If a number of different mutations occurring the same locus of a gene produce same disorder, such disorder is said to manifest allelic heterogeneity

Allelic heterogeneity of RET gene causes clinic heterogeneity: (a) Hirschprung disease (b) multiple endocrine neoplasia are caused by mutation in the same RET gene but are strikingly different phenotypes!

This doesn't exclude that allelic heterogeneity can cause the same disorder. 1300 alleles of cystic fibrosis are known.

Thus, allelic heterogeneity leads to two states: 1. the same disease with not great variation (as CF) 2. strikingly different phenotypes as with RET gene. State (2) is called clinic heterogeneity. That is clinic heterogeinity is result of allelic heterogeneinty.

See Genetics In Medicine for reference.

—Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.1.172.83 (talk) 21:46, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Not a Dab, but what to do abt it?
The accompanying main-namespace pg has had a Dab tag since 10 December, and was tagged for Dab-cleanup on 14 January. I refrained from simply removing the tag bcz I doubt that a Dab complying with WP:Dab & WP:MoSDab can be written (and i'm sure the Dab'n content is not worth trying to justify an exception to Dab guidelines); perhaps a set-index article and a series of articles on Heterogeneity in quantum physics etc. would be appropriate. If there are no signs soon of progress in some reasonable direction (nor even a bad step that nevertheless gets rid of the Dab tag), i'll do something: i think replacing the Dab tag with an SIA one, and proposing some titles that the pieces could be split out to. --Jerzy•t 23:45, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
 * 1) it appears to have some good material (so that it shouldn't just be deleted) and
 * 2) it's also not an acceptable article, but an overgrown multi-stub article.

Education?
I know there are some newer schools that use a heterogeneous model for classes. Students of different achievement levels are grouped together to improve learning. Souhegan High School is a good example of a High School that does this. Should heterogeneous educational philosophies be included on this page? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lifelonglego (talk • contribs) 01:16, 12 June 2010 (UTC)

Proposal.
Heterogeneous should be moved to Heterogeneity (which now redirects there) and made into an article on the general concept. bd2412 T 04:43, 7 September 2010 (UTC)


 * Agree. Article titles should be in the noun form.--Cúchullain t/ c 12:30, 7 September 2010 (UTC)