Most investors, Morningstar included, rely on a series
of qualitative judgments about the quality of management, entry barriers, irreproducible niches and so on.
Inspired by the black paintings of Ad Reinhardt and the date paintings of On Kawara, Scott created a series of «target» paintings consisting of black and white concentric circles that appear identical with only slight variations, intending to remove the aspect
of qualitative judgment from the viewing experience.
Not exact matches
But Darrell West, director
of governance studies at the Brookings Institution, has done his best to comb through disclosure reports and, by combining that information with
qualitative judgments about softer forms
of power, come up with a ranking
of our new oligarchy.
The book gives general descriptions
of the sites, with some
qualitative judgments woven in.
The democratic ideal
of unique
qualitative judgment is in tension with the ranking requirements
of organized society.
However, it is desirable in schools to shift the weight strongly in the direction
of individual discursive
qualitative judgments and to reserve the numerical ranking solely for situations where competitive ratings are
of the essence, as in scholarship allocation, honors citations, and certain job placement recommendations.
The highest task for health education in a society devoted to excellence is to discover and introduce into the cultural stream modes
of living that will fully employ bodily energies in ways that are at the same time consonant with the ideals
of reason,
qualitative judgment, and ethical concern.
To relate the formal structures
of mathematics and science to the concrete particularities
of the world
of actual objects requires not only calculation but
judgment, a
judgment which, if Dewey and others are correct, surely involves valuation and
qualitative awareness.
Judgments of qualitative significance apply to the commonplace as well as to the unusual and to utilitarian as well as to leisure - time pursuits.
It is really just a metric, a quantitative way
of ranking kids that is easier than making a real
qualitative judgment.
This might look like charter - school agreements in the early days — customized contracts that consider «multiple measures» and
qualitative judgments that are better aligned with the mission and approach
of the schools being evaluated (like the ones you love, Governor «Moonbeam» Brown).
These
qualitative data provide convincing evidence that in the teachers» own
judgments, their content knowledge for teaching mathematics, and their understandings
of their students» mathematics thinking were both enhanced throughout the yearlong oTPD program.
Qualitative risk assessment is «simply» assessing the likelihood and severity
of risks by using intuition, expert
judgment (where that applies), etc..
Such conclusions may involve significant elements
of subjective
judgment and
qualitative analysis.
These agencies use quantitative tools and
qualitative judgments to evaluate the creditworthiness
of an issuer and have developed a grading system from which they assign credit ratings to these issuers.
On reflection, all
of the student
judgments — at least as reflected by Judith's summary posted here — were very
qualitative.
«The confidence metric provides a
qualitative synthesis
of an author team's
judgment about the validity
of a finding, as determined through evaluation
of evidence and agreement.
Researchers might conduct correlational studies
of existing cases, as Long and Christenson did in their study
of readability and success on appeal241 or as Moss did in his mixed - methods study
of employment discrimination summary
judgment motions.242 Or they might conduct an experiment asking participants to simulated cases, as in the proposed modification
of Chestek's study
of preferences for narrative elements in briefs.243 Alternatively, researchers could conduct
qualitative studies
of decision - makers believe that legal writing influences their decisions.
[51] In her
judgment Andrews J referred to examples
of the type
of evidence required to attract legal advice privilege, to include a
qualitative assessment
of the evidence or any thoughts about its importance or relevance to the inquiry, or indications
of further areas
of investigation that the author
of the notes considered might be fruitful.