Definitely an in group vocabulary. This article is actually quite light on the lingo, but a couple other big ones are “a priori” and “update your priors”.
Basically an attempt at applying statistical reasoning to reasoning in everyday life. I don’t have a problem with the vocabulary as much as the way this group speaks: upspeak, overuse of “kind of” when they don’t mean “kind of” and a peculiar sort of thinking stutter when formulating a statement. It’s amazing how prevalent it is.