A way of behaving or believing that is normal for a group or culture All societies have their norms, they are simply what most people do Deviants break norms Some norms are enshrined in law and society punishes those who deviate from them Breaches of unwritten norms are unofficially punished This is important to science, because innovation is a form of deviancy science formally encourages (Section 15 8 )
A norm is an official standard or level that organizations are expected to reach. an agency which would establish European norms and co-ordinate national policies to halt pollution. Norman
The number of points a player must achieve in an international tournament to gain qualification for FIDE titles
a standard or model or pattern regarded as typical; "the current middle-class norm of two children per family"
Belief held by a number of members of a group, that the members ought to behave in a certain way in certain circumstances (Holmans, 1961, p 6)
The vector norm calculated by raising the absolute value of each component to the p power, adding them together, and taking the p-th root of the sum
A statistic that provides a frame of reference by which meaning may be given to test scores; norms are based upon the actual performance of pupils of various grades or ages in the standardization group for the test