This resonates with more recent proposals (e.g., van Fraassen 1984, Shimony 1988) for evaluating degrees of belief according to how closely they match the corresponding relative frequencies — in the jargon, how well calibrated they are.
He recounts in great detail how he spent the previous day building a tree fort that will be his lookout point (similar to Charles Whitman in a clock tower), how he cultivated a garden of sorts that will serve as the last supper for many-an-animal, and how he calibrated the trajectory of some technological tool in the deer killing industry.
The fairness of the plan will depend on how finely calibrated each group is defined.
Watching gears and wheels whir inside a clock, no matter how precisely calibrated the mechanism, quickly loses its appeal.
Listening to them pass tiny rhythmic motifs around the group, I was struck by how evenly calibrated these timbres were.
"I was surprised by how finely calibrated every single word was measured," he said, speaking to reporters as he flew here from Montana.
For Mr. Mawejje, Uganda's reigning Koran reciting champion, the flight provided a last chance to study the masters, listening to how they calibrated their tone, emphasis and vibrations to the drama and import of the holy book's verses.
In truth, had the Administration done nothing other than win the fight for universal, or near-universal, health coverage — no matter how it calibrated the mechanisms of employer mandates, business alliances, managed competition, and spending caps — it could have rested on its laurels.
Deviance measures how well calibrated the prediction values are and penalises errors in scaling of prediction values (Phillips and Dudík 2008).
