Where does skim collide?

In reading pedagogy, to skim is to move quickly over a text, sampling titles, openings, and topic sentences, to grasp its overall gist and structure without reading every word, a strategy distinct from scanning, which hunts for one specific detail. Grellet's Developing reading skills treats skimming and scanning as core comprehension strategies that learners are taught and drilled in. Here skimming is a cognitive reading behaviour, and it shares only the word with a thin plaster coat or a firm's selection of profitable customers.[1]

Unit

The gist and global structure a reader extracts in a single rapid pass

Recovery means

Not applicable

Measured by

Gauged by reading speed together with comprehension of main ideas after a brief, selective pass

In economics, cream skimming (or cream-skimming) is the practice by which a firm selectively serves the most profitable, lowest-risk customers while leaving costlier ones to rivals or to the public sector, a recurring concern in insurance, banking, health care, and regulated utilities. Cather's Cream skimming: Innovations in insurance risk classification and adverse selection examines how ever-finer risk classification lets insurers skim preferred risks off the market. The term borrows the image of skimming cream from milk, but names a market behaviour, not a plaster coat or a reading strategy.[2]

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The degree to which a provider selects profitable customers and sheds unprofitable ones

Recovery means

Not applicable

Measured by

Inferred from the risk and cost profiles of a provider's customers relative to the wider market pool