trender

The computer can ferret out slow-movers, down-trenders, and nonstandards, which leads to simplification and higher turnover.

I also saw, or thought I saw, a very similar clash of assumptions, hypotheses and explanatory styles between the tenets of the old orthodoxy (a mixture of behaviourism, structuralism, cultural relativism, Wittgensteinian holism and Piagetian constructivism) and the ideas of the new trenders.