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I have, however, now found a definition of entropy which certainly appears to meet most of the objections to the conventional treatment. That definition may be stated somewhat as follows:— ...
But if we begin to look at entropy in business from a scientific perspective, as a measure of probability instead of chaos, this is where the true business value lies.
By definition entropy is chaos or disorder and takes away from usable energy. There is a clear parallel to this and the way swimmers function at meets.
Jens Hainmueller, Entropy Balancing for Causal Effects: A Multivariate Reweighting Method to Produce Balanced Samples in Observational Studies, Political Analysis, Vol. 20, No. 1 (WINTER 2012), pp. 25 ...
The point to which I wished to direct attention was the desirability of basing a definition of entropy on non-available energy, and the use of the term “relative” in this connection, or at ...