i prefer those who
make decisions based on rational thought.
Your teenager will be able to
make these decisions based on rational thought more quickly and with more confidence as she gains more experience.
«And what you try to do [in business] is
make your decisions based on rational sets of facts — and that comes from measurement, in some form or another.»
Not exact matches
And as we all know, a lot of
decisions are not
made on a purely
rational basis but
on the
decision maker's intuition and experience.
The smarts - dominated leader is
rational,
makes decisions based on facts, sets goals, delegates responsibility and knows how to hold people accountable.
Think about it this way: If you've been
making all of your
decisions based on rational analysis and you're not 100 percent happy with your results, maybe next time try going with your gut.
Rational investment
decisions made based on existing capital rules are, in some cases, now inconsistent with the proposed rules.
No
rational person
makes decisions based on such distorted logic in any other area of life, and
decisions regarding the textual veracity of the Biblical text should not be an exception to that rule.
Decisions for Jung are
made on the
basis of either feelings or
rational analysis, thereby involving varying degree's of Whitehead's physical and mental poles.
Humans are generally
rational (for the most part), beings that live and
make decisions based on a moral code.
Looking for evidence, assessing it, (or its absence), and
making a
rational decision based on that evidence.
«I would hope that educated,
rational people would
make decisions and
base their actions
on factual information that they have obtained and have an understanding of...»
«Policy -
making must be
based on evidence,
rational decision -
making and that which seeks to maximise the well - being of individuals and so society more generally.
But that reasoning is
based on the assumption that people
make their
decisions like Star Trek's supremely
rational Vulcans.
«The literature reports that when we are influenced by emotions we tend to be less
rational and
make decisions that are not
based on an accurate assessment of the problem.
For the first time, researchers find that
decisions based on unconscious learning, or knowledge we don't know we know, may rely
on entirely different brain pathways than the parts of the brain we use when we
make conscious,
rational choices.
Making a
decision about an important health factor should be
based on rational thinking, and with the input from an objective health care practitioner.
This is the message implicit in the game's structure, which asks students, in order to survive, to
make a series of
rational, calculated
decisions based on precise measurements of their resources.
Without
rational selection criteria and a good understanding of which factors are more or less likely to increase risk - adjusted returns, investors will
make poor
decisions based on false assumptions.
While I would like to see more people
make rational decisions based on sound evidence, that is, sadly, not the case with many people.
But this goal can be accomplished only if policymakers consider the implications of the scientific dissent communicated to them and
make rational decisions on the
basis of it, and so far their track record in this context has not been exactly stellar.
This position would be called «nearly 50 - 50 expectation», and against such persons James» claims
make sense (if they are «
rational» in the sense that they
make decision based on statistical expectation values).
We can not
make rational policy
decisions based on totally unquantified beliefs like you have quoted.
If we had objective probabilities, we could adopt a predict - optimize - relax approach to
decision making: We predict the probability of each possible course of events; we optimize our goals while taking into account our tolerance to risk; we act
based on our models» vision of potential futures; and then relax, believing ourselves to be «
rational agents.»
(point 83, emphasis added) «In that regard, it may be necessary to produce evidence showing that the
decision is
based on economic evaluations comparable to those which, in the circumstances, a
rational private investor in a situation as close as possible to that of the Member State would have had carried out, before
making the investment, in order to determine its future profitability.
Judges, like anyone else, are often unaware of subtle influences
on why they decide as they do; speaking broadly, legal realism suggests that their supposedly
rational basis for
making a
decision may not be the actual
basis for doing so, and in fact may be flatly at odds with that «real» reason.7
Make rational decisions based on available information and evidence.
To be honest, I am not sure if people are buying into Bitcoin
based on rational decision -
making.
I advise my clients that the
decisions they
make in divorce litigation or settlement negotiations must be
made on an informed,
rational and intelligent
basis, but by THEM, not me.
«Our system of justice is
based on the premise that we understand what we're doing, we can
make rational decisions, so we can be deterred by the prospect of being punished.
Many markets that show large ownership premiums, such as San Jose, New York, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C., are currently experiencing robust rental growth, suggesting that households
make rational renting or owning
decisions greatly
based on economics.