Sentences with phrase «subjective methods of»

We have little trust that these theists will ever change their violent and subjective methods of maintaining power.

This is a very subjective method of information dissemination, however, given the general level of adoption of RSS readers by lawyers in my firm (none), the «librarian as personal RSS aggregator» — to take Steve's advocation one step further — is working well.

This study is somewhat limited by the decision to omit mothers from low socioeconomic groups and the use of a more subjective method of classifying children's attachment.

Not exact matches

In this light, purchasing something and then asking for a refund because it didn't meet subjective standards sure seems like an outdated method of buying and selling, given the encroachment of real data.

Depending on the scope and purpose of the research, happiness is often measured using objective indicators (data on crime, income, civic engagement and health) and subjective methods, such as asking people how frequently they experience positive and negative emotions.

While IIHS and dozens of other private industry groups around the world have methods and motivations that suit their own subjective purposes, the most objective and accurate independent testing of vehicle safety is currently done by the U.S. government, which found Model S and Model X to be the two cars with the lowest probability of injury of any cars that it has ever tested, making them the safest cars in history.»

Not only are these ideas subjective, but as «simple,» they are conceived according to the analytic method of Descartes and Galileo, i.e., as atomic constituents externally related.

Whitehead's method, in part, is to analyze these occasions of subjective experience in order to find factors capable of being generalized into principles applicable to all actual entities: «In describing the capacities, realized or unrealized, of an actual occasion, we have... tacitly taken human experience as an example upon which to found the generalized description required for metaphysics» (PR 172).

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.

The method is realistic, not idealistic: Whitehead remarks that instead of describing, in Kantian fashion, how subjective data pass into the appearance of an objective world, he describes how subjective experience emerges from an objective world.

The subjective emphasis on reality construction and personal meaning has pointed toward inner moods and motivations — phenomena that elude the usual methods of documentation and verification in the social sciences.

The scientific method is supposed to filter out the subjective biases of the individual observer.

Rationalism and scientism (belief in the epistemological supremacy of reason and especially of scientific method) produced the conjecture, in some quarters at least, that the symbolic / mythic / poetic / narrative modes of expression employed by all the religions are perhaps nothing more than our own subjective projections or constructs, and not representations of an independent sacral reality.

The impersonal character of these cognitional methods rules out the subjective desires or involvements that might lead us away from reality.

These apparently impersonal methods seem to allow for a minimum of subjective involvement, of taking things for granted, and of flights of fancy.

Is this compatible with scientific method, which eschews subjective language and adheres strictly to the law of parsimony?

This method has its flaws, because it relies on the subjective analysis of testers, who may have varying levels of sensitivity to heat.

The method relies on the availability of a potential user base, the costs of the drug (legal and otherwise), the subjective experience, the substance's dependence potential, and the overall ease of acquisition.

While Kanazawa's methods seem rather subjective, it is theoretically possible that — if physical attractiveness really does increase the reproductive success of daughters more than sons — natural selection could find a way to make better - looking people more likely to have daughters.

One example is the simplest and oldest voice recognition method: unaided listening, leading to subjective judgement by a person with a «trained ear» or even to the opinion of victims and witnesses.

Subjective diagnosis: Many ailments that cause a great deal of pain, such as headache, addiction, and chronic fatigue syndrome, are difficult to diagnose with today's medical methods.

Cowan and colleagues Debra Inglis and Carol Miles evaluated three biodegradable plastic mulch products using subjective visual assessments of deterioration during the cropping season and a photographic method to monitor deterioration after the mulches were incorporated into the soil.

Current methods of assessing performance - based tasks are impractical, outdated or subjective (self report), and fail to include use of everyday technology.

Methods: From the Amsterdam Dementia Cohort, we included 429 non-demented elderly with subjective cognitive decline (SCD; n = 206, 61 ± 9 years, Mini-Mental State Exam (MMSE) 28 ± 2) and mild cognitive impairment (MCI; n = 223, 67 ± 8 years, MMSE 27 ± 2), with a... mean follow - up of 2.5 ± 1.6 years.

There are subjective methods, there are some structural methods, but it's thought that there is a loss of metabolism and function before these occur, so one of the real challenges in the field is to develop early biomarkers for disease detection and progression.

The easiest methods which are research supported are subjective measures of how the client is feeling.

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.

In fact, studies of informal surveys of principals (see «When Principals Rate Teachers,» research, Spring 2006) and teacher ratings by mentor teachers find that these more - subjective evaluation methods have similar power to detect differences in teacher effectiveness as the TES ratings.

We contend, however, that evaluations based on observations of classroom practice are valuable, even if they do not predict student achievement gains considerably better than more subjective methods like principal ratings of teachers.

It also needs to be said that curriculum is notably hard for researchers to get hold of — partly because it's so variable, so subjective, so entangled with teacher competence and pedagogical method and therefore hard to isolate, and partly because it's just so nebulous, even secretive.

Curriculum «best practice» would also be targeted, since the notion of «best» was subjective and required a more rigorous focus on the actual efficacy of classroom methods, said Carter.

Rothstein also argued in favor of using seniority to handle layoffs, which he says is a less costly, subjective, and controversial method than using annual performance evaluations.

Though these methods involve judgments that are inherently subjective and involve some selectivity in their application, the Funds seek to make judgments and applications that are consistent with the interests of Fund shareholders.

This kind of argument is fairly pointless, as the effectiveness of each training method is subjective.

There is something at least apparently subjective and random in the Grosse paintings in contrast to the mathematical and systems orientation of the Steele paintings, and Blannin does a great job of teasing out the origins, rationale and methods of his approach.

Appropriating archaeological and other scientific methods of collecting, ordering, and exhibiting objects, Dion creates works that question the distinctions between objective (rational) scientific methods and subjective (irrational) influences.

Cartography here is less the science of relating places to places, more a method for locating oneself within a vast subjective landscape.

While appropriating curatorial methods and strategies, Wilson maintains his subjective view of the museum environment and the works he presents.

Appropriating archaeological and other scientific methods of collecting, ordering, and exhibiting objects, Dion creates works that question the distinctions between «objective» scientific methods and «subjective» influences.

Leeds Art Gallery with Becky Beasley Becky Beasley explores relationships between photography and objects, the body and interiority in a way that is highly subjective and yet developed through deep immersion in the thoughts and methods of other artists and writers.

His methods are highly subjective and introverted, and he expresses an appreciation for «the Dargers of the world.»

WearAQ, for example, studied how school children comprehend air pollution, offering methods which combine subjective perception with modern initiatives in the hopes of investigating air quality issues.

This does not mean that subjective phenomena are less «real» than objective phenomena, only that they are less readily accessible to traditional scientific methods of investigation.

The scientific method, with its emphasis on replicable, quantifiable empirical observations, is powerfully suited to the investigation of objective phenomena, but has a more difficult time with the investigation of subjective phenomena.

and how much of the 2sig band is objective and how much is partly subjective and how was this CI constructed and was this partly objective partly subjective method tested?

Individual responses continue to be based on a range of methods: statistical, numerical models, comparison with previous rates of sea ice loss, composites of several approaches, estimates based on various non sea ice datasets and trends, and subjective information (the heuristic category).

Individual responses continue to be based on a range of methods: statistical, numerical models, comparison with previous rates of sea ice loss, estimates based on various non-sea ice datasets and trends, and subjective information (the «heuristic» category).

The June, July, and August SIO reports received a total of 106 contributions for pan-Arctic extent predictions (based on multiple methods: statistical, dynamical models, estimates based on trends, and subjective information) along with contributions for Alaska regional extent predictions, descriptive regional contributions, and pan-Antarctic extent predictions — a new SIO feature for 2017.

I propose a different method of hypothesis testing that is independent of subjective opinions and uses only hard data — regression analysis using analytic geometry and matrix algebra.

No statistical method can get rid of that problem, many only hide it, but subjective Bayesian makes fully open.