Sentences with phrase «arbitrary categories»

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, he published papers showing how people use arbitrary categories to make judgments.

It forces your pupils into three quite arbitrary categories, and doesn't give you an idea of the full range within each grade.

Another bias is mental accounting where an investor divides wealth into arbitrary categories and makes irrational decisions based on the category, such as a stock purchase or sale tied to an emotional attachment to the company.

It set a bunch of frankly arbitrary categories that separated «weapons» from «assault weapons», like bayonet lugs, muzzle brakes, pistol grips on rifles, detachable magazines and so on.

«We tested whether a DNN signal pattern decoded from brain activity can be used to identify seen or imagined objects from arbitrary categories,» explains Kamitani.

Just because a book is temporarily # 1 in an arbitrary category on Amazon means nothing.

These arbitrary categories are a distant cousin of the main Amazon Top 100 sales ranking list.

But that doesn't mean one has to be irresponsible with money — it's just that it's much easier to be responsible with money by focusing on the «balance» instead of 10 or 20 or 30 arbitrary categories.

And now, in these exhibitions in which nearly everyone spills out of the arbitrary category of Pop, what at first may seem curatorial weakness becomes great strength.

Section III of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders — 5th Edition (DSM - 5) offers an alternative model for personality disorders intended to address the scientific problems of the categorical system (currently preserved in Section II), including within - diagnosis heterogeneity, excessive overlap with other diagnoses, and arbitrary categories that were developed from diverse traditions and clinical observations.