Sentences with phrase «value judgment about»

(By the way, please understand that when I say this, I am not making any value judgment about you or about her.

Drawing on a range of extensive databases can help inform those lawyers advising businesses in dispute resolution who can then make an informed value judgment about risk and cost.

As wrote in a recent post, what I'm saying here about lawyers» strengths and weaknesses is not a value judgment about which skills are more important.

The IPCC considers all the different ways of calculating climate sensitivity, without making a value judgment about which is best.

«I think it upsets people because it seems like we're making a value judgment about them,» says Shawn Rosenmoss, an environmental engineer and original Compactor, who has two children.

While there are historical criteria that play a role in making this determination, it is primarily a value judgment about where a species comes from, and whether it has a positive, neutral or destructive impact on the environment.

What we do is whittle out the relative likelihood of each of these outcomes so we can make a value judgment about whether or not the risks are adequate to move forward.

I was implicitly citing that Callaway point about the option eligible rotation, not making a value judgment about the relative quality of Sewald and Rhame.

And conversely, I believe morals can not be absolute in that they are a value judgment about certain behavior because I believe value judgments about certain behavior can not be moral absolutes.

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.

The champions of atheist memetics often smuggle in a covert value judgment about «good» and «bad» memes into their world view, without ever justifying where this cosmic meta - value is grounded.

Vertical equity: A value judgment about whether the net tax burden on people at different levels of well - being is appropriate.

The innovator has to be able to feel outside the box, too — that is, to make value judgments about the images and ideas that he or she has produced in such abundance.

I almost never make value judgments about these ingredients — the idea is that you now have all this information, you make your own decisions,» explained Di Justo to one reader.

Some people like that kind of thing though, I make no value judgments about them.

Teachers make value judgments about technologies presented to them, and the more valuable they judge a tool to be, the more likely they are to use it (Ertmer & Ottenbreit - Leftwich, 2010).

Like if you throw enough at it, it will spit back a thing you want, and I think what gets lost there is that they aren't learning — and perhaps your mythical second year associate too isn't learning — to make value judgments about what a good source is and what isn't, and maybe if your AI is smart enough to say, «Hey, everybody thinks this law review is more reputable than that law review,» but even that again is sort of... it's area - specific.

Several commenters asserted that this criterion was unsound in that it would impose on reviewing bodies the explicit requirement to form and debate conflicting value judgments about the relative weights of the research proposal versus an individual's right to privacy.

Former FDIC Chairwoman Sheila Bair also thinks that governments should not «make their own value judgments about Bitcoin.»

«Instead of making its own value judgments about Bitcoin, what government should do is first make sure our policies don't feed the frenzy.»

«Instead of making its own value judgments about bitcoin, what government should do is first make sure our policies don't feed the frenzy,» Bair added.

Not exact matches

Since income and risk must be estimated at current values, the process involves subjective judgments about capitalization and discount rates.

Political values are important in antitrust, but political pressure on government enforcers undercuts their ability to make professional judgments about enforcement policy.

Gilead bases its estimates on historical experience and on various other market specific and other relevant assumptions that it believes to be reasonable under the circumstances, the results of which form the basis for making judgments about the carrying values of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources.

We base our estimates on historical experience and on various other assumptions that we believe to be reasonable under the circumstances, the results of which form the basis for making judgments about the carrying values of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources.

Funds that are actively managed could experience losses if the investment managers» judgment about markets or interest rates, or the attractiveness, relative values, liquidity or potential appreciation of particular investments prove to be incorrect.

You can even make judgments about the value of the religious ideas you were taught or that you possess.

The Justices write as if this question can be ignored or constitutes merely a «value judgment» about which reasonable people can disagree.

While his judgment about the value of the accord for the preservation of catholic life in Europe may be seriously questioned, he did not support the agreement simply to enhance his own power, as Cornwall implies, but because he felt it was in the best interest of the church at the time.

Because we can not directly observe the behavior of biblical people or interview them about their moral values and principles, it is all the more important to study the biblical forms of moral discourse — the many ways in which these values and judgments are expressed.

The moral enterprise presupposes the potential universality of judgments about values that are individually objective.

In a democracy of desire, money is the absolute good, from which all blessings flow, precisely because it is neutral in respect to values: it contains no judgments of better or worse, no directions about right or wrong.

Our culture lacks a way of talking effectively about the ultimate value of human life, or making large judgments about what is good for human beings in the long run.

Under those circumstances, Russian Protestants might well settle into a paradoxical relationship that accepts the government's «leading role» in areas where the government insists on having priority while reserving judgment about the ultimate values to be served.

The Christian's decision about these two models of trade will hinge largely on judgments of the value and importance of maximum global economic growth.

It is surrounded by larger and deeper value questions that it can not resolve by itself3 The technical expert may make judgments about these more comprehensive issues of good and bad.

An understanding of the characteristics that make for intrinsic value is an absolute prerequisite for any judgment about the goodness of conduct, for right conduct must be directed toward the realization of high values.

In this setting many questions are inevitably asked, such as whether or not the history of religions teaches religion, whether religions of the world can be or should be taught without value judgment, and finally whether the history of religions is to provide intellectual understanding about religions or contribute to the religious growth of students.

as making a subjective judgment about the true value of the contribution beyond what may be legally relevant.

Make your own judgment about what your child should be allowed to do based on your family's values and what you know of your child.

Authoritarian parenting is characterized by strict rules adhering to an external judgment of what is the «correct» way to behave, such as social values, religious values, family traditions or preconceived notions about what makes the perfect parent.

Formulation of recommendations was based on the quality of the evidence and judgment (incorporating values and preferences) about the balance of benefits and harms.

A panel convened by the International Whaling Commission's scientific committee made the same points about the scientific value of Japan's whaling in the North Pacific as those contained in the ICJ judgment of the Antarctic catch.

«That modern secular individuals are prone to cling on to beliefs about science, in the same way that their ancestors turned to the gods,» they write in their paper, «carries no judgment on the value of science as a method but simply highlights the human motivation to believe.»

Oppenheimer and his co-authors use a technique known as «structured expert judgment» to put an actual value on the uncertainty that scientists studying climate change have about a particular model's prediction of future events such as sea - level rise.

Weinstein: Of course I'm making value judgments; that's what ethics is all about.

In the midst of his takedown, however, came an observation that stopped me in my tracks: «Here's the thing to remember about discipline systems at school — every one of them codifies somebody's value system, sets in rules and regulations judgments like «being compliant is good» or «a good student is one who questions authority,»» Greene wrote.

Under present systems for evaluating teachers in New York State and elsewhere, unsupported assumptions about teaching and learning often result in unfair judgments, concludes James A. Gross in Teachers on Trial: Values, Standards, and Equity in Judging Conduct and Competence.

Teachers should use their professional judgment about the grade value of this exam, and the activities and assessments they will use to ensure the remainder of the school year is productive.

If we are going to use value - added measures to make judgments about teacher quality, we owe it to these teachers, to their students, and to the public to do all we can to ensure that the means of computing them are accurate, reliable and fair.