This is one of those postings that may only interest me — AKA, I’m thinking about something and I answer it via a Chop Block post. There’s very little insight, story structure, or analysis here; just answering random musings from the couch during a stormy Cincinnati afternoon. There might not even be a conclusion; I’ll just stop when I’m finished.
A constant variable in science, according to a handful of Google searches, is something that cannot not change during an experiment. In business, it’s a value that cannon change after being assigned.