Sentences with phrase «qualitative judgments»

The democratic ideal of unique qualitative judgment is in tension with the ranking requirements of organized society.

It is really just a metric, a quantitative way of ranking kids that is easier than making a real qualitative judgment.

External peer review is particularly influential when it focuses on benchmarking, as the consortium does, rather than on qualitative judgments about programs and practices.

Most investors, Morningstar included, rely on a series of qualitative judgments about the quality of management, entry barriers, irreproducible niches and so on.

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.

Greenblatt understood that Buffett's «wonderful - company - at - a-fair-price» strategy required Buffett's delicate qualitative judgment.

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.

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.

Practitioners of legal analytics statistically parse the practice of law in search of data that can be used to augment, or in some cases replace, the more qualitative judgment of human lawyers.

Greenblatt understood that Buffett's «wonderful - company - at - a-fair-price» strategy required Buffett's delicate qualitative judgment.

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.

In recent decades, intuition and qualitative judgment have been replaced by models, quantitative analysis, and complex math.

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 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.

As Oppenheimer explained: «Confidence is no longer expressed quantitatively (as distinct from likelihood) but is a qualitative judgment reflecting various characteristics of the evidence and the degree of agreement between different types of evidence.»

Also, the strength of fit is often a qualitative judgment, and identifying useful analogies, say between a securities case and an environmental law case, is a nuanced cognitive ability.