ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Inverse consistency

Okay, kiddo, let me explain inverse consistency for you! Imagine you have a block tower, and you want to know if it's stable or not. To check, you can try pushing it a little to see if it falls over. If it does, you know it's not very stable. Simple, right?

Now, let's say you want to check if your block tower is stable from a different angle. Maybe you want to push it from the side to see if it falls over. This is kinda like inverse consistency.

In computer science, we use inverse consistency to check if two different ways of measuring the same thing give us the same result. Kinda like checking the stability of the block tower from different angles. If they do give us the same result, then we know our measurement methods are consistent.

For example, let's say you want to measure the amount of water in a cup. You can use a scale to measure the weight of the cup with water in it, or you could use a measuring cup to measure the volume of water in the cup. If these two methods give us the same answer, we know they are inverse consistent.

So, inverse consistency is all about making sure that different ways of measuring the same thing give us the same result. It's like checking the stability of our block tower from different angles to make sure it won't fall over no matter how we push it. Make sense, little buddy?