Sentences with phrase «relative judgment makes»

Wells says that anything that pushes us from absolute to relative judgment makes our testimony less reliable.

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«If shows find audiences, we can see that and make relative judgments there.

«Relative deprivation is an idea that says that when we make judgments about ourselves, we judge ourselves next to our immediate peers — people like us in the same room as us — not to the world at large,» Gladwell said in a recent interview with author Daniel H. Pink.

And if morality is relative, how CAN you make a judgment on others» actions?

Provided this judgment is taken as it should be, not as formulating a timeless principle, but as relative to the classical philosophy that Pascal clearly had in mind in making it, it can claim the full support of contemporary historical, including biblical, theology.

I was implicitly citing that Callaway point about the option eligible rotation, not making a value judgment about the relative quality of Sewald and Rhame.

Unfortunately, concerning bedsharing, many health - county - regional - state - professionals apparently think all parents are equally unable to make reasonable judgments for themselves as regards whether they are able or not to bedshare safely, to weigh the relative risks and benefits, and that therefore, it must be done for them, and with as much legal authority and veiled threats as they can present.

What we do is whittle out the relative likelihood of each of these outcomes so we can make a value judgment about whether or not the risks are adequate to move forward.

In the 1950s, Solomon Asch, a pioneer in social psychology, pitted naive test subjects against a group of strangers who made bizarre judgments about the relative lengths of lines.

Because people didn't notice that the room was changing size, they made wildly inaccurate judgments about the relative sizes of the boxes, the team reports 21 February in Current Biology.

This may be because schools make judgments about retention and referrals based on a student's relative achievement within a grade, and by virtue of their age, older students are less likely to have very low achievement.

Ratings are fine in theory, and someone has to make judgments of relative risk, but the macro decision of what classes of investments are permitted, and what capital level to hold against them belongs to the regulators.

The UCS scientists and colleagues took the IPCC to task for issuing reports that present different future scenarios, while making no judgment on the relative likelihood of the varying projections, «implicitly treating all scenarios as equivalently plausible.»

Furthermore, when a covered entity can not practicably obtain an individual's agreement before disclosing protected health information to a relative or to a person involved in the individual's care and is making decisions about such disclosures consistent with the exercise of professional judgment regarding the individual's best interest, covered entities must take into account whether such a disclosure is likely to put the individual at risk of serious harm.