In Greek mythology, Procrustes (/proʊˈkrʌstiːz/; Greek: Προκρούστης Prokroustes, "the stretcher [who hammers out the metal]"), also known as Prokoptas, Damastes (Δαμαστής, "subduer") or Polypemon, was a rogue smith and bandit from Attica who attacked people by stretching them or cutting off their legs, so as to force them to fit the size of an iron bed.
The word Procrustean is thus used by analogy to describe, for example, situations where an arbitrary standard is used to measure success, while completely disregarding obvious harm that results from the effort.
tellings, if the guest proved too tall, Procrustes would amputate the excess length; if the guest was too short Procrustes would stretch them until they died;...
statistics, Procrustes analysis is a form of statistical shape analysis used to analyse the distribution of a set of shapes. The name Procrustes (Greek: Προκρούστης)...
(2001),The Bed of Procrustes (2010–2016), and Skin in the Game (2018). Taleb, Nassim Nicholas (30 November 2010). The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and...
Procrustes problem ( A ∈ R m × m {\displaystyle A\in \mathbb {R} ^{m\times m}} ) is referred to as the balanced problem in these contexts. Procrustes...
set the reference to mean shape and continue to step 2. Procrustes analysis Orthogonal Procrustes problem Meullenet, Jean-François; Xiong, Rui; Findlay...
geometric object, but not its shape. The Procrustes transformation is named after the mythical Greek robber Procrustes who made his victims fit his bed either...
performed, the algorithm is sometimes called partial Procrustes superimposition (see also orthogonal Procrustes problem). Let P and Q be two sets, each containing...
statistical hypotheses about shape. Procrustes-based analyses have some limitations. One is that the Procrustes superimposition uses a least-squares...
Procrustes-transformed PCA plot of genetic variation of European populations. (A) Geographic coordinates of 37 populations. (B) Procrustes-transformed...
it is primarily found in deciduous forests and mixed forests. Carabus (Procrustes) coriaceus coriaceus L., 1758 (Carabidae) - atlas of beetles of Russia...
Cercyon at wrestling and then killed him instead. The last bandit was Procrustes the Stretcher, who had two beds, one of which he offered to passers-by...
non-academics had similar criticisms. Crab mentality Dumbing down Law of Jante Procrustes The Starlit Corridor Tall poppy syndrome Harrison Bergeron at IMDb "2081"...
Bernard Shaw Mikhail Turovsky Lev Shestov Nassim Nicholas Taleb (The Bed of Procrustes) Lao Tze Voltaire Wasif Ali Wasif Oscar Wilde Alexander Woollcott Burchard...
In 1933, Petrescu wrote the novel Patul lui Procust [ro] ("The Bed of Procrustes"). He was a teacher in Timișoara, and director of the National Theater...
hollow sphere may be considered to have the same shape as a solid sphere. Procrustes analysis is used in many sciences to determine whether or not two objects...
pen name of Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn (1943), Menace of the Herd, or, Procrustes at Large, Milwaukee, WI: The Bruce Publishing Company Kuehnelt-Leddihn...
ISBN 9781788739610. von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, Erik (1943). The Menace of the Herd; or, Procrustes at Large. Ludwig von Mises Institute. OCLC 733805752. McLean, Iain; McMillan...
the Incerto, which also includes The Black Swan (2007–2010), The Bed of Procrustes (2010–2016), Antifragile (2012), and Skin in the Game (2018). Taleb sets...
foreigners were too tall, they would cut off their legs (the Greek myth of Procrustes tells a similar story). As a result, many people refrained from visiting...
"Exploring artificial cranial deformation using elliptic Fourier analysis of procrustes aligned outlines". American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 122 (1):...
922K. doi:10.1107/S0567739476001873. Hurley JR, Cattell RB (1962). "The Procrustes Program: Producing direct rotation to test a hypothesized factor structure"...
ramjet with colonists is already on its way when the colony "fails". In Procrustes and other later stories, Home is once again presented as a vibrant colony...
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