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Much to Bill's consternation, the word collision isn't part of Sissy's vocabulary.
(Those who greet with consternation what might seem to be a publisher's fiddling with counts in dictionaries ought to know that the system for such counting was worked out in the 1930s, mainly between Merriam-Webster and the US Treasury Department, which was then in charge of all government purchases, as a means for assessing the information content of dictionaries being purchased for the government, a responsibility later shifted to another department.)
As a pastel practitioner myself, but furtively sharing many of Hawkins' prejudices and hunches about computational modelling in neuroscience, I am caught between commendation and consternation.
Because the fiddling charge arises in the context of college rankings . In the hushed groves of academia, few things cause more consternation than an outsider using numeral measurements to gauge academic performance--even though colleges and universities rely on similar measurements to rate their applicants.
Hargarten commented that this area has the potential to cause consternation and divisiveness, so it will require a great deal of textual commentary to tease out the important issues that it addresses.