One director disclosed: "I feel like assessing or teaching advocacy is always challenging …. other than to say that they have done an advocacy project and check a checkbox".
Jessica, for instance, described herself being initially perplexed by being asked about her emotional life: I couldn't really understand, I thought it would be all about making things better, be like assessing the suffering to my fingers, I didn't think any of it could be to do with emotional things.
"I think this kind of meeting enriches the tools you have in your toolbox for doing things like assessing and managing risk, and hopefully helps to identify areas where more research, more information would be valuable for protection of the population.
"It's like assessing how the economy is doing by looking at the change in your pocket," Mr. Johnson said.
Even popular ideas -- like assessing an extra 40 yen (31 cents) of tax on each pack of cigarettes, yielding 200 billion yen ($1.5 billion) a year -- have been shot down.
To judge Cabinda on the same terms as Cape Town, 2,000 miles away, is like assessing the safety of London based on a trip to New York.
Taking their clients as representative of all prostitutes is like assessing the state of marriage by sampling shelters for battered women.
Assessing the health of a nation soley based on its wealth is like assessing the health of a child solely based on its weight.The research shows that measures of diversity make strong predictions about future GDP growth.
Other problems, like assessing the sufficiency or efficiency of study time or effort, might be harder to overcome.
Well, Ona says coaching can involve multiple one-on-one sessions and include secondary services like stylists and photographers, while consulting tends to be one-off, like assessing your profile or serving as a wingman/woman).
