dot connector

See also: dot-connector

English

Noun

dot connector (plural dot connectors)

  1. Alternative form of dot-connector.
    • 2014 November 8, Will Storr, “'Ebola is man-made', and other crazy conspiracy theories”, in The Daily Telegraph‎[1], London: Telegraph Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 November 2015:
      So humans are rampant dodgy dot connectors, and they also suffer from an array of biases that make them susceptible to faulty belief.
    • 2020 December 30, Niall McGee, “How the COVID-19 pandemic fuelled a boom in Canadian stock promotion scams”, in The Globe and Mail‎[2], Toronto, ON: The Woodbridge Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 December 2020:
      Canadian regulators, she says, need to hire young STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) graduates – “dot connectors” – who can track scams as they’re being perpetrated and stop them right away.
    • 2025 March 27, Benjamin Wallace, “The Great 21st-Century Treasure Hunt”, in Intelligencer‎[3], New York, N.Y.: New York Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 March 2025:
      Nonetheless, searchers who had spent years obsessing about the treasure felt the finder owed them answers — if not the location, then surely a couple of clues. When neither Fenn nor the finder provided any, the tribe of dot connectors and pattern recognizers began subjecting the scant photographic documentation of the discovery to relentless analysis.
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