Sentences with phrase «on subjective methods»

Not exact matches

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.

Second, pragmatism, like all interest theories of ethics, has no way of escaping the subjectivism which grounds all value ultimately on subjective feeling, nor is this any less the case because of the objective methods that pragmatism supports for the judgment of whether our actions will in fact produce the values that we think they will.

The subjective emphasis on reality construction and personal meaning has pointed toward inner moods and motivations — phenomena that elude the usual methods of documentation and verification in the social sciences.

This method has its flaws, because it relies on the subjective analysis of testers, who may have varying levels of sensitivity to heat.

The method relies on the availability of a potential user base, the costs of the drug (legal and otherwise), the subjective experience, the substance's dependence potential, and the overall ease of acquisition.

The new approach also seeks to transform firearm identification from a subjective method that depends on an examiner's experience and judgement to one that is based on objective measurements.

We contend, however, that evaluations based on observations of classroom practice are valuable, even if they do not predict student achievement gains considerably better than more subjective methods like principal ratings of teachers.

Curriculum «best practice» would also be targeted, since the notion of «best» was subjective and required a more rigorous focus on the actual efficacy of classroom methods, said Carter.

It's not subjective if you ask some basic questions based on simple good - practice design rules and things like that (rules that have been established for a long time now), such as «Is using this method to do this more intuitive, fun, responsive, reliable, and accurate than this method?»

The scientific method, with its emphasis on replicable, quantifiable empirical observations, is powerfully suited to the investigation of objective phenomena, but has a more difficult time with the investigation of subjective phenomena.

Individual responses continue to be based on a range of methods: statistical, numerical models, comparison with previous rates of sea ice loss, composites of several approaches, estimates based on various non sea ice datasets and trends, and subjective information (the heuristic category).

Individual responses continue to be based on a range of methods: statistical, numerical models, comparison with previous rates of sea ice loss, estimates based on various non-sea ice datasets and trends, and subjective information (the «heuristic» category).

The June, July, and August SIO reports received a total of 106 contributions for pan-Arctic extent predictions (based on multiple methods: statistical, dynamical models, estimates based on trends, and subjective information) along with contributions for Alaska regional extent predictions, descriptive regional contributions, and pan-Antarctic extent predictions — a new SIO feature for 2017.

The counterbalance to the subjective declarations about whose scientific «expertise» is sufficient to make public statements on issues with large societal implications lies, IMO, in bringing in the scientific method to clarify and make explicit the working criteria for evaluating expertise, and to control for biasing influences.

With these assumptions, there is no doubt that the correct method is found by computing posterior probabilities based on the «subjective» uniform prior.

For both variants of the uniform prior subjective Bayesian method, probability matching is nothing like exact except in the unrealistic case where the sample is drawn equally from the entire calibration range — in which case over-coverage errors in some regions on average cancel out with under - coverage errors in other regions, probably reflecting the near symmetrical form of the stylised overall calibration curve.

I think views on that will eventually change, and the shortcomings and limits of validity of subjective Bayesian methods will become recognised.

Individual responses continue to be based on a range of methods: statistical, numerical models, comparison with previous rates of sea ice loss, estimates based on various non-sea ice datasets and trends, and subjective information (i.e., the «heuristic» category).

The trends are too dependent on subjective techniques of selecting base stations and objective methods in filling in missing data from adjacent stations.

(for «purely subjective» Bayesians, «empirical Bayes» methods are just another «frequentist» approach, a point made by someone in comments on some widely cited papers on Carl Morris.)

Contributions are based on a range of methods: statistical, dynamical models, estimates based on trends, and subjective information.

An expert witness «must provide reasons for rejecting alternative hypotheses «using scientific methods and procedures» and the elimination of those hypotheses must be founded on more than «subjective beliefs or unsupported speculation,»» Clausen v. M / V NEW CARISSA, 339 F. 3d 1049, 1058 (9th Cir.

That is particularly true between a «disciplined» appraisal method such as X times rent, and a more «subjective» valuation based on how «hot» an area is, and how many people want to live there, which might bring about a multiple, Y, higher than X (the general multiple) for just one area.

Perceived stress is defined especially after having studied the interaction between the individual and the environment, psychological stress include the interpretation of the adequacy of management methods and based on the notion that stress results from the subjective assessment of the individual in his relation with the environment (Lazarus & Folkman, 1984).

Specifically, we illustrate the potential value of this new approach by identifying a taxonomy of dyad - level subtypes that differ in how their emotions (i.e., multiple within - day ratings of happiness — chosen here as an exemplar variable with variance properties useful for methods development) vary through normal daily life, and examine how that taxonomy is related to a set of theoretically meaningful variables — subjective health, dyadic adjustment (agreement on amount of time spent with partner), and relationship satisfaction, all of which constitute important characteristics of older couples» well - being (Hoppmann & Gerstorf, 2016).