Regression vs Devolution - What's the difference?
regression | devolution |
An action of regressing, a return to a previous state.
* 1899: Thorstein Veblen, The Theory of the Leisure Class
(psychotherapy) A psychotherapeutic method whereby healing is facilitated by inducing the patient to act out behaviour typical of an earlier developmental stage.
(statistics) An analytic method to measure the association of one or more independent variables with a dependent variable.
(statistics) An equation using specified and associated data for two or more variables such that one variable can be estimated from the remaining variable(s).
(programming) The reappearance of a bug in a piece of software that had previously been fixed.
A rolling down.
A descent, especially one that passes through a series of revolutions, or by succession
The transference of a right to a successor, or of a power from one body to another.
(pejorative) Degeneration (as opposed to evolution).
(British) The transfer of some powers, and the delegation of some functions, from a central sovereign government to local government; eg. from Westminster to Scottish parliament and Welsh assembly.
As nouns the difference between regression and devolution
is that regression is regression while devolution is a rolling down.regression
English
(wikipedia regression)Noun
(en noun)- Few of these groups or communities that are classed as "savage" show no traces of regression from a more advanced cultural stage.