AIM Framework glossary
Effective Coupling Strength
Canonical definition
Effective Coupling Strength is the realised coupling strength after content-distance and memory-decay adjustments, representing the actual degree of Belief coupling experienced by an Individual in a specific context at a specific time, as opposed to the raw Coupling Strength parameter which abstracts away these contextual modulations.
Explanation
Effective Coupling Strength is what you actually experience after accounting for how close the content is to your existing concerns and how recently you encountered the coupling signal. Raw Coupling Strength is the structural parameter; Effective Coupling Strength is what the parameter becomes once it passes through the filters of relevance and recency. A social media feed may have high raw Coupling Strength, but its Effective Coupling Strength for a given Individual depends on whether the content matches that Individual’s active Belief domains and how recently similar content was encountered.
Epistemic status
Parameter.
Derivation
Also in the entry
Notation Statement. Denoted κeffective in formal equations, derivations, operational-definition blocks, appendices, figure and table headings, and the definitions database. Written in full as “Effective Coupling Strength” in running prose. On first prose appearance in any given document the English term may be followed by a parenthetical gloss of the form “Effective Coupling Strength (κeffective)”; a second parenthetical gloss of the same form is permitted at the first prose occurrence of the term in the main body after the formal definitions section, as a courtesy to readers who skip front-matter. All subsequent prose occurrences within that document use the English term only.