Sentences with phrase «judgment of experts»

People will defer to the judgment of experts, and they trust climate scientists on the subject of global warming.

People will generally defer to the judgment of experts, and they trust climate scientists on the subject of global warming.

Since scientific theories are not «real» the public must rely on the judgment of the experts in deciding public policy.

«The high stock market levels did not, as so many imagine, represent the consensus judgment of experts who have carefully weighed the long - term evidence.

Third, the lack of relationship between «better» standards and achievement might be caused by low levels of compliance by schools and educators rather than the unreliable judgment of experts.

«And it's finally possible now to use data and machine learning techniques to replace the judgment of experts in law and in healthcare,» he said.

All human brains share basic anatomical circuits and synaptic interactions, but the precise pattern of connections and interactions are highly variable from person to person — and therein lies the source of the remarkable variation we see in human behavior — from the breathtaking dance of a ballerina, to the elegant craftsmanship of a master carpenter, to the shrewd judgment of an expert trader.

Similar to what we discovered for schools, however, not all teachers were found to be exemplary, at least according to the judgments of our expert ratings of teacher accomplishment.

Authorized by NAEP legislation and adopted by the National Assessment Governing Board (NAGB), the three achievement levels are determined by cut points based on the collective judgments of experts about what students should know and be able to do.

Not exact matches

«Food safety, at the end of the day, is a judgment we allow experts to make on our behalf.»

«There is little or no evidence of cases in which expert judgment does better than intelligently constructed formulas,» Kahneman said.

«One of the most interesting things we've noticed over the last decade is the ability of math and machines to replace human judgment, particularly expert judgment,» Rabois said on Founder Calls, a new podcast run by Box CEO Aaron Levie.

The Board has determined, in its business judgment, that each member of the AEC (Lloyd H. Dean, Enrique Hernandez, Jr., Robert L. Joss, Cynthia H. Milligan, Nicholas G. Moore, Philip J. Quigley, and Susan G. Swenson) is financially literate as required by NYSE rules, and that each member qualifies as an «audit committee financial expert» as defined by SEC regulations.

The Board has determined, in its business judgment, that each current member of the AEC (John D. Baker II, Lloyd H. Dean, Enrique Hernandez, Jr., Robert L. Joss, Cynthia H. Milligan, Nicholas G. Moore, Philip J. Quigley, and Susan G. Swenson) is financially literate as required by NYSE rules, and that each member qualifies as an «audit committee financial expert» as defined by SEC regulations.

At least one member of the Committee shall in the judgment of the Board be an «audit committee financial expert,» as defined by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the «SEC»).

The Board has determined, in its business judgment, that each member of the AEC is financially literate as required by NYSE rules and qualifies as an «audit committee financial expert» as defined by SEC regulations.

It is surrounded by larger and deeper value questions that it can not resolve by itself3 The technical expert may make judgments about these more comprehensive issues of good and bad.

And just as Emily, the woman mentioned in the blog post, experienced, rather than getting good guidance from the experts, parents end up insecure about their own capabilities, simply forgetting about the importance of their own judgment or even feeling guilty for having ideas and feelings that don't seem to match their noble motives.

The 2010 results are based on an expert panel that was called upon to use participants» judgment to assess the relative harm of 20 different drugs.

The Notre Dame study used expert elicitation, a process of formalizing and quantifying experts» judgments to estimate Asian carp impact to Lake Erie fishery biomass, a method designed by co-author Roger Cooke, senior fellow with Resources for the Future.

«Many experts estimate that less than 1 percent of the recreational diving population possesses the knowledge, skills, attitude, and judgment needed to cave dive as safely as possible,» says Johnny Richards, a former attorney who now works full - time as a cave diving instructor in northern Florida and runs the informational Web site CaveDiving.com.

Unlike traditional halls of fame, this one does not rely on the subjective judgment of a small committee of experts.

This is the source of both unconscious biases that may lead to bad judgments, and the insight from experts with significant experience in a specific situation.

It detected cognates correctly and in agreement with expert judgments in 89.5 % of all cases.

«We have still not exhausted the full potential of computational methods in historical linguistics, and it is almost certain that future algorithms will bring us even closer to expert's judgments,» he says.

The winning algorithms — designed by non-ALS experts — outperformed the judgments of a group of ALS clinicians given the same data.

They add that by using this comparison the model quantifies expertise — or the value of expert judgments — as being equal to a specific number of data points collected in the field.

They first gathered judgments for the quantiles of the yield from a domain expert.

Structured expert judgment has been used for decades in fields where scenarios have high degrees of uncertainty, most notably nuclear - energy generation, Oppenheimer explained.

Oppenheimer and his co-authors use a technique known as «structured expert judgment» to put an actual value on the uncertainty that scientists studying climate change have about a particular model's prediction of future events such as sea - level rise.

Another technique, called probabilistic inversion, would adjust a climate model's projections to reflect those experts» judgment of its probability.

Claudia Tebaldi, a project scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, said that the researchers propose a much more robust method for evaluating the increasing volume of climate - change data coming out than experts coming up with «a ballpark estimate based on their own judgments.»

Paul Slovic, an expert on human judgment, decision - making and the psychology of risk, will present two Patten Lectures the week of Oct. 24 at Indiana University Bloomington.

McGregor is Alfred Jones, an expert on fishing and a government functionary tasked against his will and his better judgment into helping a visionary Yemeni sheik achieve his dream of bringing sport fishing to the desert, and not just to help his people find a novel way to pass their time.

One sword hit will take you down, so you might find yourself partaking in a patient bout of mind chess as you tentatively look for a gap in your opponent's defenses, using your expert judgment to parry and disarm your nemesis as they go in for the kill, for example.

Students are best served when they have access to both expert judgment and the types of algorithmic supports possible in personalized learning environments.

Regarding the former kind of issue (evolution and global warming are offered as examples), the authors argue that teachers should not remain neutral but rather teach specific respect for expert judgments and general respect for the expert «epistemologies» that support those judgments:

He recommends «citizen judgment» instead of Chad's expert judgment approach.

Many people claim to be expert judges of the quality of standards but no one's judgment has been validated by actual improvement in student performance.

Given that there is no technically correct set of standards and given that expert judgment about the quality of standards has never been validated by better student outcomes, there is no reason for Arkansas to defer to the small group of national experts who drafted the Common Core standards.

Finance experts retained by the state modeled their practices after those of the Food and Drug Administration, Air Traffic Control Administration, and Veterans Administration, all of which have relied for years on professional judgment panels when faced with information deficiencies.

Additionally, much of the work that has tried to build on Kahneman and Tversky seems to violate their basic finding that expert judgment is unreliable.

Currently, many teachers view observation as the same thing as evaluation when in fact these structures (informal, formal and walkthrough observations) provide a means for gathering what Charlotte Danielson, Dr. Robert Marzano and others experts refer to as a preponderance of evidence in order to make a reasoned judgment about a teacher's overall practice.

Many teachers unions also favor getting rid of bad educators, not based strictly on test scores or the subjective judgment of principals, but through «peer review» plans which call for expert teachers to come into a school and work with struggling educators and in some cases recommend termination.

The methodology and judgments of the study were reviewed, validated and endorsed by a panel of six distinguished academic experts including:

As Rick Hanushek has carefully demonstrated in the context of education spending adequacy lawsuits, the «professional judgment» or «expert panel» method is completely unreliable: He writes:

These guidelines are the product of nearly a year's work by experts in the field of autistic spectrum disorders and are based on validated scientific evidence, clinical experience and clinical judgment.

Second, we applied two strategies — consensus scoring and a rank - ordering method — to estimate comparability in Year 1 of the NH PACE pilot based upon the expert judgment of 85 teachers using 505 student work samples.

Assessing organisational capacity will rightly draw heavily on the RSCs» expert judgment, but as a guideline, one useful measure would be the proportion of the schools currently in the chain with performance below key thresholds.

They are the first single - book awards for adult books given by the American Library Association and reflect the expert judgment and insight of library professionals who work closely with adult readers.