It confirms the most critical assumptions in your calculation and prevents embarrassment. (skepticalscience.com)
Many a desktop computer has been purchased specifically to take advantage of these programs, which allow even an unsophisticated computer user to change a few critical assumptions and, in the blink of an eye, recalculate an entire financial model (see «How VisiCalc Works,» INC., November 1981, page 104). (inc.com)
And, of course, agreement with Barr will sometimes be conditioned by divergent critical assumptions — or even by one's concurrence with the implicit claim that the fundamental task is to create the space for criticism. (religion-online.org)