what does it mean to be “meta” about something?

Question

The title. I never understood that expression… can someone help?

Edit: auto correct on ‘someone’

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Expansion upon other comments:

Another example usage of “meta” is a scientific “meta-analysis”. An “analysis” is when you do some experiment and get a bunch of data and figure out some conclusions. A “meta-analysis” is when you look up all the analyses other people have already done, and you analyze all their analyses to find patterns that are too big for one single analysis to spot.

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