Is it the words or the concepts that you’re interested in here?
There’s obviously a lot of value in having e.g. the concept of “confounder” available to you, and if you knew of it but were in danger of forgetting it then it would make sense to try to get it better fixed in your head. But if you have the concept of confounders, but were in danger of forgetting the word, it seems to me like that matters much less. Your thinking won’t be too badly impaired by having to replace “confounder” with “wossname”, or with “something irrelevant that produces similar effects to the thing I’m interested in”, or whatever.
So are you looking for particularly valuable concepts that have single-non-jargon-word names, or are you looking for cases where the words themselves are valuable (e.g., because it’s extra-useful to be able to use them in discussion with other people)?
You absolutely might want to say “either is fine”. But it wasn’t clear whether you were primarily after one, primarily after the other, or after both equally, hence my request for clarification.
Is it the words or the concepts that you’re interested in here?
There’s obviously a lot of value in having e.g. the concept of “confounder” available to you, and if you knew of it but were in danger of forgetting it then it would make sense to try to get it better fixed in your head. But if you have the concept of confounders, but were in danger of forgetting the word, it seems to me like that matters much less. Your thinking won’t be too badly impaired by having to replace “confounder” with “wossname”, or with “something irrelevant that produces similar effects to the thing I’m interested in”, or whatever.
So are you looking for particularly valuable concepts that have single-non-jargon-word names, or are you looking for cases where the words themselves are valuable (e.g., because it’s extra-useful to be able to use them in discussion with other people)?
Why might I not want to say “either is fine”? I want to say that either is fine.
You absolutely might want to say “either is fine”. But it wasn’t clear whether you were primarily after one, primarily after the other, or after both equally, hence my request for clarification.