<p>While I am obviously very much non-senior, I don't see why there can't be some questions about terminology.  Statistical terminology is very important within the community of practice for statistics (try publishing a paper using the wrong terms for your audience, you'll likely get some nasty comments).  </p>

<p>Worse, different related communities of practice use the same terms for different things.  Statisticians, computer scientists, physicists, and social scientists all use a solid amount of stats.  They do not always use the same terms for the same concepts, which is complicated significantly by the fact that AI and CS is heavily Bayesian while social science is heavily frequentist.</p>

<p>If anything, I'd think there might need to be some guidelines for answering such questions.  I don't think any answer about terminology is remotely useful unless it cites a source and states the domain of science where such terminology is used.</p>
