![]() | This article is rated C-class on Wikipedia's
content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Equating dichotomous keys with "single-access" keys is slightly misleading. A dichotomous key often includes multiple ways to access any given taxon, and so identification may often be made along any of several fixed steps. This would seem to make such a key "multi-access". Conversely, a tabular or matrix key may have only a single set of choices that lead to a given taxon, which would seem to make it "single-access". The difference between the two is that the sequence of steps in the paths is fixed in one case but not in the other; this distinction is not conveyed clearly by "single-access" vs. "multi-access". However, a better terminology is not obvious. Little analytical attention has been given to identification keys, so far as I can tell... Paalexan ( talk) 20:25, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
Single-access key may also be confused with single-access point as used in Cloud computing where cloud computing infrastructure often appears as a single point of access for all consumers' computing needs. Plain vanilla with chocolate chips ( talk) 13:37, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
A Google search comparison yields 1,550,000 results for "Dichotomous key" vs only 391,000 for "single-access key". Similarly, Google Scholar yields 5,680 hits and 59, respectively. This article appears to be written more from a computer science perspective and less from a biological or general usage perspective. --Animalparty-- ( talk) 09:15, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
![]() | This article is rated C-class on Wikipedia's
content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Equating dichotomous keys with "single-access" keys is slightly misleading. A dichotomous key often includes multiple ways to access any given taxon, and so identification may often be made along any of several fixed steps. This would seem to make such a key "multi-access". Conversely, a tabular or matrix key may have only a single set of choices that lead to a given taxon, which would seem to make it "single-access". The difference between the two is that the sequence of steps in the paths is fixed in one case but not in the other; this distinction is not conveyed clearly by "single-access" vs. "multi-access". However, a better terminology is not obvious. Little analytical attention has been given to identification keys, so far as I can tell... Paalexan ( talk) 20:25, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
Single-access key may also be confused with single-access point as used in Cloud computing where cloud computing infrastructure often appears as a single point of access for all consumers' computing needs. Plain vanilla with chocolate chips ( talk) 13:37, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
A Google search comparison yields 1,550,000 results for "Dichotomous key" vs only 391,000 for "single-access key". Similarly, Google Scholar yields 5,680 hits and 59, respectively. This article appears to be written more from a computer science perspective and less from a biological or general usage perspective. --Animalparty-- ( talk) 09:15, 16 January 2014 (UTC)