"Subjective judgment" refers to making a decision or forming an opinion based on personal feelings, beliefs, or perspectives rather than solely relying on objective facts or evidence. It means that the judgment might vary depending on individual experiences, biases, or preferences, and may not be universally agreed upon.
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Since income and risk must be estimated at current values, the process involves
subjective judgments about capitalization and discount rates.
That's why background screening should be a required part of your hiring process — to protect yourself from your
own subjective judgments.
Although some people complain that credit scores are unfair, turning
subjective judgments into a single number, it's a system based on an overwhelming amount of historical data.
Although the concept of risk capacity is objective, in actual practice, it is still linked to the investor's real
world subjective judgments and emotions about investment losses.
The report also delves into existing literature that traces how
subjective judgments by latent fingerprint examiners can influence their findings, particularly when they are exposed in advance of their analysis to information about an underlying criminal investigation or shown an existing fingerprint of a suspect.
Julia's report also discussed the existing policies» inconsistent treatment of students in different degree programs, the fact that the entire credit - transfer system was built on a principle of
subjective judgments as to whether courses from different colleges matched, and the delays students experienced in trying to get their credits evaluated when they transferred to a new college.
On the basis of experience from a variety of sources a religious person and the theologian formulate a theory which, like any theory dealing with complex issues in science, is a matter of weighing one experience against another, together with
much subjective judgment.
By tagging
subjective judgments with percent values, the climatologists erode the long - standing distinction between chance and raison de croire.
These admittedly
more subjective judgments, which accounted for 20 % of HBR's weighting, boosted Sørensen, who ranked sixth on the list when judged purely by financial metrics, to the number one spot.
Instead, we need a work force to take on jobs that computers can't: to think laterally, to make
subjective judgment calls an algorithm can't, and to solve problems.
But, in public education, the balance needs to tilt more toward the mechanical application of results, because supervisors have fewer incentives to make
appropriate subjective judgments.
Most companies use productivity measures to inform the subjective assessments of supervisors, with some companies permitting
less subjective judgment than others for fear of bias or favoritism.
That's why the climatologists had been using vague language about probability — they didn't feel they could draw on the rigorous language of percentages to describe what were
essentially subjective judgments.
The estimated uncertainty range of TCR is critical for the result, but that range has also been justified better than describing it as a
purely subjective judgment of those who participate in writing the report.
This group aims, according to its website, to «unpack the knowledge hidden in big data,» «design... choice architectures,» and «reduce noise in decision - making» (that is, to eliminate inconsistencies created by
conflicting subjective judgments in organizations).
In addition, aggregate data from the app will be presented to the NYPL staff for consideration, meaning that exhibition visitors have the opportunity to apply their
own subjective judgment in a way that may come to define how each image is cataloged.
An approximate return to pretreatment conditions often (but not always) occurs within days or weeks after cessation of antibiotic treatment, as assessed by
subjective judgments of bowel function and characterizations of overall community composition using techniques with low phylogenetic resolution [23 — 25].
Though many doctors consider DSM - IV to be a highly reliable tool for diagnosis and research, others say that it still
requires subjective judgments.
Winkler scorns writerly characterizations as offering «
subjective judgments we shouldn't make.»
Too many applicants take them at face value, not understanding that the results of any ranking might be based on little more than
the subjective judgments of a journalist, with little, if any, understanding of business education.
But instead of «performance indicators,» U of T's 16th - place reputation ranking is based on the «
subjective judgment,» or opinions of published academics occupying senior positions at their places of research.
Now, this remains
a subjective judgment to some degree — if we go looking for a poll or a study to make the slam - dunk case that all these people are right, we'll wind up disappointed.
Blame is correspondingly harsh, suggesting
the subjective judgment of a child who has no faith in a parent who loves, deals with mercy, and is just.
And indeed he cautions against
any subjective judgments being made by or about individuals - «humble spouses follow the Lamb more easily than proud virgins».
When all the facts that can be garnered are in,
subjective judgments have to be made because not all the facts are in or can ever be unearthed, and facts anyway have to be interpreted (Andrewartha & Birch 1984 pp. 190 - 1).
Which side of the explanation one comes down on is a matter of
subjective judgment.
as making
a subjective judgment about the true value of the contribution beyond what may be legally relevant.
As always, please note that this list is a measure of each post's rate of engagement (relative to that Facebook Page's baseline) and not
a subjective judgment about quality.
It is
a subjective judgment.