Sentences with phrase «subjective judgments as»

Therefore they have decided to support the application of the precautionary principle by stating the uncertainties as less than any objective systematic analysis can support and using subjective judgments as a more reliable basis for quantitative conclusions than they really are.

Not exact matches

Winkler scorns writerly characterizations as offering «subjective judgments we shouldn't make.»

A critical audit matter is defined as a matter that was communicated or required to be communicated to the audit committee and that: (1) relates to accounts or disclosures that are material to the financial statements and (2) involved especially challenging, subjective, or complex auditor judgment.

Given the absence of a public trading market of our common stock, and in accordance with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Accounting and Valuation Guide, Valuation of Privately - Held Company Equity Securities Issued as Compensation, our board of directors exercised reasonable judgment and considered numerous and subjective factors to determine the best estimate of fair value of our common stock, including independent third - party valuations of our common stock; the prices at which we sold shares of our convertible preferred stock to outside investors in arms - length transactions; the rights, preferences, and privileges of our convertible preferred stock relative to those of our common stock; our operating results, financial position, and capital resources; current business conditions and projections; the lack of marketability of our common stock; the hiring of key personnel and the experience of our management; the introduction of new products; our stage of development and material risks related to our business; the fact that the option grants involve illiquid securities in a private company; the likelihood of achieving a liquidity event, such as an initial public offering or a sale of our company given the prevailing market conditions and the nature and history of our business; industry trends and competitive environment; trends in consumer spending, including consumer confidence; and overall economic indicators, including gross domestic product, employment, inflation and interest rates, and the general economic outlook.

Except as otherwise noted, the Compensation Committee's executive compensation determinations are subjective and the result of the Compensation Committee's business judgment, which is informed by the experiences of the members of the Compensation Committee as well as the input from, and peer group data provided by, the Compensation Committee's independent executive compensation consultant.

Atheist morality is without any objective basis and, if followed with integrity, doesn't allow them to act against others who act contrary to their moral system (as they insist that each subjective moral judgment is equal in value, all being based purely on individual feelings).

Furthermore, the particular experiences interpreted as religious on the basis of the categoreal feelings and subjective forms considered in this essay will differ accordingly from those expounded on the basis of an alternative value 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, in other words, a political judgment and, as with all things political, is extraordinarily subjective and vulnerable to all sorts of manipulations.

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].

Which is not to say this list is not run through with my own subjective judgments, simply that I have found my own way to spread the love around (including naming runners - up as my whims take me).

Far from being an exact science, the method they chose, as we shall see, was profoundly subjective, a matter of judgment by and for self - interested parties.

On it, «subjective perception and experience become the sole arbiter of truth,» as my colleague Sara Mead wrote, and «we are left with the... forces of emotion, sentiment, and affinity to guide our judgments and decisions.»

Its weakness is that it is comprised of parents» and teachers» surveys, which as indirect observations, have the weakness of being susceptible to subjective judgments.

(The trouble, I think, is that «no simpler than necessary» necessarily invokes subjective value judgments, some of which are illuminated by the various alternate formulations such as those that I listed.)

Because the judgment as to what constitutes an «extraordinary» claim is wholly subjective, as is the judgment as to what constitutes sufficiently «extraordinary» evidence to support whatever someone subjectively feels is an «extraordinary» claim.

Policymakers must do cost / benefit analysis, taking into account tradeoffs, such as balancing risks from climate change against those from poverty, and as Hans von Storch points out, «judgments of the value of costs versus benefits is [sic] a highly subjective, value - laden calculation.»

The elements of probability weren't teased apart until 1837, when Siméon - Denis Poisson divided it into the dual concepts of statistical frequency (called «chance») and subjective judgment (sometimes referred to as «raison de croire»).

However, our perception of these fauna and flora as somehow less valuable is an entirely subjective judgment.

However, the answer is ultimately a subjective judgment that depends on values and culture, as well as socioeconomic and psychological factors, all of which influence how people perceive risk in general and the risk of climate change in particular.

On the other hand I'm not as skeptical as many, including probably you, on the value of subjective judgments.

Judith,» I won't make a judgment here as to how «expert judgment» and subjective «down weighting» is different from «making things up»»

(though as I also said at Lucia's, «bad», as well as «frightening» and «so what» are 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.

In accordance with the importance that the phenomenological approach attaches to subjectivity and sense of self as the starting points for knowledge, emphasis is placed on the need for the clinician to focus on the subjective experiences of the at - risk individual, to set aside prior assumptions, judgments, or interpretations, and to identify ways of bridging gaps in communication associated with negative emotions.

He agreed with me that there is too much involved as to subjective information to address property evaluations, loan applications are pretty simple but «compensating factors» can't be evaluated in a circuit, that's a judgment call.