On the final paragraph, I don’t strongly disagree, but:
I think to me “drastically curtail” more naturally means “reduces to much less than 50%” (though that may be biased by me having also heard Ord’s operationalisation for the same term).
At first glance, I feel averse to introducing a new term for something like “reduces by 5-90%”
I think “non-existential trajectory change”, or just “trajectory change”, maybe does an ok job for what you want to say
Technically those things would also cover 0.0001% losses or the like. But it seems like you could just say “trajectory change” and then also talk about roughly how much loss you mean?
It seems like if we come up with a new term for the 5-90% bucket, we would also want a new term for other buckets?
I agree with everything but your final paragraph.
On the final paragraph, I don’t strongly disagree, but:
I think to me “drastically curtail” more naturally means “reduces to much less than 50%” (though that may be biased by me having also heard Ord’s operationalisation for the same term).
At first glance, I feel averse to introducing a new term for something like “reduces by 5-90%”
I think “non-existential trajectory change”, or just “trajectory change”, maybe does an ok job for what you want to say
Technically those things would also cover 0.0001% losses or the like. But it seems like you could just say “trajectory change” and then also talk about roughly how much loss you mean?
It seems like if we come up with a new term for the 5-90% bucket, we would also want a new term for other buckets?