Sentences with phrase «subjective judgments about»

Instead, this message is just another warning, in a growing series of cautionary tales, that the particular application of CBAs or IAMs to climate change seems more inherently prone to being dependent on subjective judgments about structural uncertainties than most other, more ordinary, applications of CBAs or IAMs.

Teachers will be spared from making subjective judgments about...

Since income and risk must be estimated at current values, the process involves subjective judgments about capitalization and discount rates.

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.

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Morningstar's analyst ratings are highly subjective and rely on judgment calls about the validity of the manager's process.

And indeed he cautions against any subjective judgments being made by or about individuals - «humble spouses follow the Lamb more easily than proud virgins».

Morality, by definition, is a value judgment about certain behavior and that requires a person to make the value judgment — so, it must be subjective.

Choosing who to hire ends up being a very subjective process, based on a whole range of judgments about externalities that may or may not correlate to ability.

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.

More often than not, the case rests on the subjective judgment of four evaluators hired by the pro-Common Core Thomas B. Fordham Institute in 2010, who opined that the new standards were better than about three - quarters of existing state standards.

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.

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.

In general, we use numbers and percentages when we're talking about statistical probability, and we use phrases like «doubtful» or «almost certain» when we're talking about subjective judgments.

We might say, in the statistical sense, that the chance of rolling snake eyes on a pair of dice is about 3 percent; subjective probabilities, by contrast, come into play whenever we make a personal judgment based on available evidence.

It is difficult to have a scientific discussion about subjective judgments.

The judgment about who can volunteer to be a charity trustee could be made based on the subjective views and opinions of whoever is running the Charity Commission — which might be unduly influenced by media or political pressure as opposed to an objective consideration of the facts and legal due process.

Obviously, when trying to define what «a little» or «a lot» of sex is, we're talking about a subjective judgment; however, I think most of us would agree that a difference of 1.6 times per month is not a dramatic change.