Sentences with phrase «subjective judgments of»

It is based off of the subjective judgments of people allocating their portfolios to equities or anything else.

Each day's debrief focused on trends observed across classrooms, keeping the focus on evidence and school - wide trends rather than subjective judgments of individual teachers.

In both private industry and public education, a balance must be struck between the mechanical use of productivity measures in assessing employees and relying on the subjective judgments of supervisors.

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].

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.

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.

Unlike traditional halls of fame, this one does not rely on the subjective judgment of a small committee of experts.

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.

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.

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.

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.

For the other considerations, the selection of the very likely range appears to involve quite a lot subjective judgment of the evidence and go beyond fully objective analysis.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

Our goal here is to offer a snapshot of the many impressive women we're watching in the upper reaches of the philanthrosphere, while recognizing that judgments on these matters are subjective.

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

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.

«Conscience» is not a matter of determining what I want to do and then doing it; «conscience» is my search for truths that can be known to be true and then binding myself to those truths, which stand in judgment on me and on society: «If, in keeping with the prevailing modern idea, conscience is reduced to the subjective field to which religion and morality have been banished, then the crisis of the West has no remedy and Europe is destined to collapse upon itself.

Both apply the same subjective standard of judgment: shock.

Subjective information or writing is based on personal opinions, interpretations, points of view, emotions and judgment.

Obviously the judgment here is somewhat subjective, and those who have been articulating the doctrine resent the neglect of their careful formulations.

The judgment of such excellence may be partly subjective, but it is not wholly so.

For in such a case, too, the moral judgment (that is the capacity of subjective realization) may remain below objective demand even despite normal intelligence and freedom, and though the objective demand has been understood and the fundamental authority of the Church is not disputed.

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).

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.

Second, pragmatism, like all interest theories of ethics, has no way of escaping the subjectivism which grounds all value ultimately on subjective feeling, nor is this any less the case because of the objective methods that pragmatism supports for the judgment of whether our actions will in fact produce the values that we think they will.

Nevertheless, these judgments do not establish that Whitehead appreciated the necessity of subjective experience for the occurrence of prehensions at the time he gave the Lowell Lectures or even when he completed Science and the Modern World.

A proposition emerges in the analysis of a judgment; it is the datum of the judgment in abstraction from the judging subject and from the subjective form.

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.

Which side of the explanation one comes down on is a matter of subjective judgment.

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.

We are warranted in making laws only because we are capable of reasoning through to judgments of that kind that are not merely personal and subjective.

His insightful emphasis on the personal and tacit matrix of all judgments, be they «objective» or «subjective,» provides both the cornerstone and much of the framework for a postcritical, non-dichotomized theory of knowledge and an integrated way of being in the world.

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.

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.

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.

This tells us that the neurons» responses were based on the subjective, perceived judgments that the patients made rather than on the «ground truth» of the emotion shown in the stimulus.»

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.

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.

«They're inherently subjective because they're based on human judgment,» says David Peterson, a project scientist at Salk and the University of California, San Diego and first author of the new paper.

Instead of saying whether it's wrong or not, which is a pretty subjective judgment, this is just a bit of perspective.

It thus eschews statistical analysis in favor of subjective judgments.

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.

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.

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.

Picking a winner is arguably the work of subjective rather than objective judgment.