ENVIRONMENTALISTS, those concerned about reducing harm to people and the earth, follow «THE MEDICAL MODEL» of avoiding false negatives (acting as if there is no problem, when indeed there is); that is, they do not
need high certainty of a problem to start addressing it.
Not exact matches
The
higher the
need for
certainty, the less risk you'll be willing to take or emotionally bear.
We don't know, but for important institutions we
need a
high level of
certainty that key decision - makers are exercising their judgment in the interests of those they serve, rather than themselves.
A person's risk tolerance is directly equivalent to how little
certainty they
need: The
higher their tolerance, the less mental security they require.
By measuring the tau levels in a regular blood test, the researchers could say how severe the concussion was just one hour after the injury, and with a
high level of
certainty could predict which players would have long - term symptoms and thereby
needed to rest longer.
«You
need very
high - quality entanglement and very
high efficiency in your measuring devices to know with
certainty that the effects you are seeing aren't an artefact of the measuring instrument,» he says.
[58] More conclusive evidence is
needed for
certainty, but the available evidence suggests that the regulations promulgated by the state, including the state testing mandate, discouraged
higher - quality private schools from participating in the scholarship program.
Interest rates
need to be around 1.5 %
higher to shut off the speculation with near -
certainty (did not work in 1987... rates got much
higher.).
You
need to try to have less trades but more
certainty in the trades you do take, think about eventually becoming a «baller trader» with lower overall risk and
higher rewards.
If we want to understand methane (and greenhouse gas) emissions with
high certainty sufficient for regulation, we would
need an expanded network of observations.
Some environmentalists even follow the precautionary principle of disallowing actions, unless they are proven safe — like not emitting GHGs beyond
needs and simple pleasures, unless we are 99 % certain AGW is not happening (the
higher level of
certainty is due to the risks being so grave).
«Given the
need for offsets from fertilizer management to be fungible with offsets from landfill gas or any number of other sectors in which emissions can be directly measured with a
high degree of accuracy, it is critical that methodologies for quantification of emissions from N2O result in
high degree of
certainty and confidence,» explains Dr. Timothy Pearson of Winrock, coauthor of the methodology with William Salas of Applied Geosolutions LLC.
In an era when bank savings and interest rates produce low returns, solar can be a very attractive investment given the
high certainty that you will continue to
need to use power into the future.
It had occured to me that a statement saying most warming is anthro with a
high degree of
certainty is more user friendly for policy then one that narrows in on the
higher end of anthro attribution but with the
need to explain the sources of the greater uncertainties.
Instead, to obtain a rate that covers all of those 50 years, we
need a different
certainty - equivalent discount rate that is also declining but generally has
higher values.
Using the usual sneaky tricking of quietly assuming the very thing they first
need to prove, but clearly haven't, and don't even seem anywhere near proving — i.e. a
high certainty that CAGW is true.
In a market with relatively homogeneous products and a
high degree of transparency (the call for bids will specify what type of escalator or elevator is
needed and which specifications must be met), all the participants to the tender, including those outside the cartel, will be able to identify the winning price and thus the market price with absolute
certainty.
Back to the law.com article, clients
need to educated consumers so they don't accomplish budget
certainty by paying a
higher total fee than they should.
The justifiable aims proposed in relation to the amendments included the
need to provide
certainty to non-Indigenous and Indigenous titleholders; the
need to deal with the
High Court's decision in the Wik case; and the
need to balance the interests of all the stakeholders in the legislation, including farmers, miners, developers, governments, and native title holders.
«We were pleased to be able to deliver on the
needs of a long - time client and be able to provide a
high certainty of execution during a compressed closing timeframe.»