Rely
on objective data, not flimsy intuition.
It is becoming increasingly important for firms to be able to explore a variety of pricing options — standard hourly rates, AFAs and contingency fees, or hybrid approaches of any type — and reach decisions based
on objective data instead of guesswork, aspiration and fingers crossed.
Safety in numbers will prove over time, I suspect, to be the first major theory based
on objective data that can break down the double standard we all pedal under.
«Estimates» have a specific meaning to me... they are based
on objective data but also include subjective judgements.
Vancouver, BC About Blog Franchise Chatter provides entrepreneurs with the most relevant information about a wide selection of franchise opportunities so they can make informed decisions based
on objective data and analysis.
«We can set regulatory goals based
on objective data about how the landscape used to work.»
It then explained its view on how debt analysts should pursue their profession: «Credit rating decisions should be based
on objective data, policymakers» announcements and realistic assessments of the conditions facing an economy.
Not exact matches
«It's vital that we hear directly from the workers who are
on the frontlines of this shift so that we have the
objective data and analysis we need to make informed policy choices.»
Depending
on the scope and purpose of the research, happiness is often measured using
objective indicators (
data on crime, income, civic engagement and health) and subjective methods, such as asking people how frequently they experience positive and negative emotions.
Still, since labs are the biggest source of
objective data that most doctors have to base decisions
on, they need to trust new tests before deciding they're going to start using them.
Using
data to tie marketing back to return
on investment has helped marketers reach new levels of influence, removing the traditional «fluff» of marketing and replacing it with
objective measurement.
In startups, we're hyper focused
on metrics — measurable,
objective data.
Forward - thinking leaders recognize these issues and are changing the hiring game by employing
data - based assessment tests and rankings based
on objective measurements.
But for researchers or consumers seeking more nuanced health
data, putting other
objective measures
on hospitals» Yelp landing pages would provide even more context about hospital performance.
The
objective here is to ensure that
data is not being captured
on kids and young people.
Our primary
objective is to establish a permanent lunar presence while seeking
data on local water and other resources that will enable future lunar development.
Active managers rely
on our factor models,
data and portfolio construction and optimization tools to build portfolios and keep them aligned with their investment
objectives.
As a result, millennials appear far more predisposed toward weighing hard
data with
objective scrutiny, and placing more relevance
on these figures than
on soft
data findings.
But the optimism around supposedly
objective algorithms has been challenged in recent years by evidence that some automated systems amplify bias because they're trained
on data reflecting historical inequities.
It can provide a
data - based
objective view
on whether you're buying near the top of the market or not.»
He taught me to think rigorously based
on real
objective data and not to just accept uncritically what groups might tell me.
they then go
on to explain the occurrence of the subjective
data of perception by treating them as instances of law - like regularities of types of
objective physical occurrences.
On the
datum theory (Q), the concrescence had its underlying unity in terms of its initiating
datum, and the subject was the subjective aspect of this
objective datum (early sense).
Neither can they be distinguished
on the basis of their constituent prehensions having different kinds of
objective data, that is, either other feelings or eternal objects.
On the other hand, the term «
objective lure» disappears once Whitehead makes the shift from
datum to
data.
This account of awareness is empirical because it is based
on the immediate experience of the causal efficacy of the physical world; it is radically empirical because it claims to sense, in addition to the
data for the five senses, the
objective embodiments of values, and it senses these values «intuitively» — that is, physically by, for example, a sense of aversion or a sense of attraction.
Such study, however, does attempt to be
objective by sticking close to empirical
data, to its critical analysis, and to projections based
on it.
For either the event holds
on to the determination it originally prehended, in spite of the latter's transition into an [
objective] state, and so pre-produces in itself only the objectified
data; or else it develops a novel determination in contrast to its original one.
Rather, the prehensions have public origins, the
objective data; they have private subjective forms, based
on the private aim of the actual occasion; and then the occasion, having unified its prehensions, passes back into publicity, providing
data for new prehensions.
Thinking rationally, making decisions based
on independent, verifiable,
objective data and not jumping to «some god did it» whenever we don't understand something.
Because scientists and philosophers abstract
data based
on particular interest, the
objective philosophical and scientific precision craved by the rationalism of modernity is impossible.
But at least two senses of the word can easily be isolated: sometimes, «information» means simply «
data,»
objective facts given «out there,» things, processes, brute events; at other times, however, it means the cognitive contents of subjective knowledge «in here» about things, processes, events, and so
on.
I recall quite vividly a survey
on sex by Time magazine about 20 years ago, in which they came to the conclusion that married Christian couples were among the most sexually active (though least promiscuous) and the most satisfied, with
objective data to back up their findings.
By basing subjective unity upon the virtual unity of
objective data Whitehead has imposed
on his philosophy this additional requirement that there be no elimination in later phases.
A full service research organisation specialising in omnibus and syndicated
data, Roy Morgan has over 70 years» experience in collecting
objective, independent information
on consumers.
It is
on such verifiable
data that
objective people like Robbie Fowler base to make their analysis not the emotional sentiments that many of our fans exhibit.
If childbirth had a permit process that was regulated by codes (based
on objective scientific
data, which places safety as a primary goal & attempts to maintain the affected mortality rate as close to zero as possible), mother's would only have the safest option available.
Activities have been directed by three
objectives; namely, generate new
data on the distribution and determinants of healthy growth; communication and advocacy
on the link between poor complementary feeding and growth, and supporting countries to set and implement stunting reduction agendas; and assisting countries to roll out the WHO Child Growth Standards while promoting best practices for growth assessment and infant and young child feeding.
In the report, the comptroller's office recommends improving accuracy of job
data projections, improved transparency, creation of set criteria to allow
objective evaluation of projects
on a cost / benefit basis, and the inclusion of a provision that would allow tax dollars to be reclaimed if a project failed.
A news piece from NY Post where,
on the basis that one Census employees that performed the
data collection (so, a low level position) admitted adding fake interviews (not for political reasons but to reach «productivity»
objectives).
Merrick Academy in Queens, Bedford Stuyvesant New Beginnings Charter School, South Bronx Charter for International Cultures and the Arts, and Success Academy Charter Schools - NYC were selected based
on objective criteria, including geography, size and publicly available financial
data.
The Rules will not provide a specific formula, but require that allocations must be either equal, or by
data - driven formula based
on objective differences between districts, or a combination.
This work includes making sure that departments include specific open
data commitments in their business plans, regularly publishing open
data sets
on central and local government spending, senior staff salary details and how the government is performing against
objectives.
She notes that, despite DNA's popular image of
objective precision, the
data often requires interpretation, which is based
on a researcher's assumptions.
As the researchers collect
data in this way
on many more people, they hope to come up with new and much more
objective ways to measure not just sleep but also sleep quality.
All three measures —
objective rating by Chou, subjective rating by patients, and digital
data from the device's connection to a computer — showed improvement for eating and transferring items when the device was turned
on, compared to when it was off.
The new study, published online January 24 in Psychological Science, teased out the answer by examining 30 years of
data on thousands of Americans, including psychological measures of mood and well - being, reports of job and relationship success, and
objective measures of health.
NASA will provide spacecraft integration, power,
data storage and communication capabilities for selected payloads, which the agency will choose based
on contributions to both partner goals and ARM
objectives, with consideration for those that may support risk reduction for the mission.
Whilst some studies have found increased postural sway during quiet standing and walking
on level ground in patients with DPN, no
data exist
on objective measures of balance during stair walking.
«This new finding is of paramount importance to unlocking the multitude of processes behind particle behavior in the belts,» says Barry Mauk, project scientist for the Van Allen Probes at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md. «To have one of the primary science
objectives of the mission met within just over a year of launch is a testament to the quality and quantity of the
data the instruments
on the probes are gathering, and to the teams analyzing them.»