Sentences with phrase «subjective judgments by»

1995 M. Granger Morgan and David Keith, «Subjective Judgments by Climate Experts.»

These studies suggest that black teachers are powerful role models, particularly for black boys; that they are more likely than white teachers to recognize competence in their black students; and that subjective judgments by teachers play a vital role in determining success at school.

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.

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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.

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.

He begins by presenting a novel, brief history of arguments in analytic philosophy between moral realism (the view that moral properties are objectively real) and moral expressivism (the view that moral judgments are subjective expressions).

My judgment that I ought to act that way would be warranted by the correctness of my belief that the sense of obligation inescapably functions in the subjective form of that imaginative feeling.

More subjective is the judgment that the approaches to both philosophy and theology that have been dominant in recent decades and that have militated against attention to the work of both Whitehead and Hartshorne are running dry and that new vitality can be attained best in both disciplines by serious dialogue with Whitehead.

But even so, they make clear that, to ferret out that je ne sais quoi that foreshadows outstanding scientific performance, nothing compares to subjective judgments of quality by experienced researchers.

Yet that figure included not only patients in the mental health system but also individuals who were judged retrospectively by researchers to be experiencing symptoms of mental illness, a judgment that is highly subjective.

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].

Cartel Land, the fascinating, infuriating documentary by Matthew Heineman, plunges us into the Mexican drugs wars without judgment or subjective bias.

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.

More often than not, the case for the Common Core's superiority rests on the subjective judgment of four evaluators hired by the avidly pro — Common Core Thomas B. Fordham Institute.

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.

If you do, I am not saying you are wrong, I'm saying that you are making a subjective value judgment and there is no way to refute you, so I won't insult you by saying that I think your values are stupid, which is what people who try to refute value statements are really doing.

This means several breeds - not only «pit bulls» - can and will be affected by these ordinances depending on the subjective judgment of the individual making the breed identification.

«subjective 1 based on or influenced by personal feelings, tastes, or opinions: his views are highly subjective there is always the danger of making a subjective judgment.

(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.)

Up to this point, the harm that has been projected has been a subjective judgment, generally made by those who lack the qualifications to make that judgment.

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.

The first half of the paragraph describes a situation, where IPCC does not lead to severe problems, but the second to the real risk that is created by IPCC, when the subjective judgment is important.

Monster simplification is formalized in the IPCC AR3 and AR4 by guidelines for characterizing uncertainty in a consensus approach consisting of expert judgment in the context of a subjective Bayesian analysis (Moss and Schneider 2000).

Determination of the other two quantities, by contrast, involves ethical value judgments that are necessarily subjective.

Strong generalizations can not be justified by the data alone, but they are mostly based on subjective judgments.

This precise sounding figure is, interestingly, a subjective judgment arrived at by people who have an obvious vested interest.

The climate change problem is characterized by high levels of uncertainty, and modeling and subjective judgments substitute extensively for estimates based upon experience with actual events and outcomes.

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.

In the end, however, there are subjective judgments made by both sides which are difficult to anticipate or alter.

The leading Court of Appeal judgment, by Ward LJ, runs through a lot of trammelled cases which set the general standard of approach, namely to treat claims on their subjective merits.

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.