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.
Not exact matches
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.
Cartel Land, the fascinating, infuriating documentary by Matthew Heineman, plunges us
into the Mexican drugs wars without
judgment or
subjective bias.
Many teachers unions also favor getting rid of bad educators, not based strictly on test scores or the
subjective judgment of principals, but through «peer review» plans which call for expert teachers to come
into a school and work with struggling educators and in some cases recommend termination.
The same
subjective judgment comes
into play when you apply for housing.
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.»
But more salient is IPCC's reluctance to fully couple the inevitable process of
subjective judgment in a coherent way
into its assessments of uncertainty and, absent this coupling, IPCC's tendency, particularly in SPMs, to resort to emphasizing ensemble means rather than fully describing the range of views.
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»).
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.