Typology orderings arise from either conceptual aggregation or causal outcome levels

Evidence

A key mythological issue is that there are two separate ways to do the ordering which often go together in practice. The first ordering might be called the conceptual ordering, where the aggregation procedures of the row and column variables produce the ordering. The second one is a causal ordering, where there is an order in the predicted probability or level of the outcome variable that determines the ordering. — Gary Goertz, Social Science Concepts and Measurement, 1296

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces a distinction between conceptual ordering and causal ordering in two-dimensional typologies.
• XREF: Connects to the book’s earlier discussion of how row and column dimensions aggregate into cells.