Sentences with phrase «arbitrary decisions based»

In particular, national outlets did not highlight the role of state - appointed «emergency managers» who made arbitrary decisions based on budgetary concerns, including the catastrophic decision to draw Flint's water from the Flint River instead of Lake Huron (via the Detroit water system).

As part of their «relentless respect» for staff members, effective principals steer clear of arbitrary decisions based on personal preference.

More than 75 % of company retreats are absolute failures dominated by «circular conversations and way too much partying» because they «are arbitrary decisions based on a task and not a result,» says Alan Weiss, an organizational development consultant with a client list that ranges from JPMorgan Chase and the U.S. Federal Reserve to Hewlett - Packard and Mercedes - Benz.

But that is an arbitrary decision based perhaps on their lack of a complex nervous system.

Not exact matches

Mayer based her decisions about which celebrities Yahoo should hire on arbitrary criteria.

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.

The team investigated «input - output processes», assessing the mathematical framework used to describe arbitrary devices that make future decisions based on stimuli received from the environment.

It becomes very arbitrary, and all too often means that clinicians are determining medical decisions based on lab ranges that are highly variable and frequently vague.

Granted, the boost to starting salaries is not as great as some advocates would like — the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce has called for starting salaries of $ 45,000 — but remember that this new schedule is based on the arbitrary decision to reward credentials that improve test scores by 1 percent of a standard deviation with a 1 percent boost in salary.

All of higher education is negatively impacted by this decision, and to those of us who believe in the power of human reason to improve the human condition, the arbitrary and unsubstantiated basis of the decision moves us away from the cosmopolitan aspirations of democracy and of the Enlightenment, back to an age of darkness.

«We want equality in the way that people are paid, and to have it not be based on arbitrary decisions or favoritism,» said Greg Swanson, a 12 - year English teacher.

«They are constantly grouping and regrouping students based on what they need, not based on some arbitrary decision,» Horn says.

«In those cases, the general feeling was that those decisions were rather arbitrary, not based on the merits of the charter that had been developed.

Standardized test passing rates are based on arbitrary and political decisions about how many students decision - makers want to fail.

The only thing I would have liked to know is whether your decision to buy or sell was also completely arbitrary or judgement based.

His decision to cease making blue and red paintings in 1954 was due to his realization that viewers reacted strongly to his color choices, feeling attracted to one color or another based on arbitrary preferences, ignoring the formal problematics Reinhardt was engaged with.

We need to build this infrastructure that benefits American consumers, and so I'm hopeful, that on a bipartisan basis, we can gather around an approach to infrastructure and release those investment dollars that are anxious to be invested one they're confident there won't be arbitrary decisions made that would restrict our ability to build the infrastructure.»

How many drivers will not be eager to share driving info with insurers and others either for privacy reasons or skepticism about what arbitrary decisions about them will be made based on that info?