Sentence examples for Subjective testimony from inspiring English sources

Reports of anti-Semitic incidents are based on differing data and rely heavily on subjective testimony.

"The general reaction of economists," Easterlin told me, "was: 'This is just subjective testimony that nobody puts any credit in.' " Happiness studies became a hot discipline in the early 2000s, and France, Britain and other governments now conduct surveys of their own national levels of emotional well-being.

The thought experiment thus is not intended to show that dreams are not experiences, but rather that the question of whether they are cannot be settled by armchair conceptual analysis or on the basis of subjective testimony, but "only by the triumph of a good empirical theory over rival empirical theories" (Dennett 1979: 317).

Based on the subjective testimony of these patients, their widespread pain symptomatology began several years before the diagnosis of CD and their FMS symptoms were minimally improved by, or did not benefit at all, from the GFD [ 53].

Though most of the testimony concerns subjective questions of fashion sense, an occasional note of functionality intrudes: praising an Adidas high-top, a graffiti writer says, "If I was bombing the elevated trains I wanted ankle support and Top Tens were ridiculous for that".

The major shift toward treating physician testimony and subjective evidence of pain was thus introduced by various legislative changes and court rulings in 1984, and continued through 1996.

Unfortunately, that sort of testimony can often be subjective.

This is because increased weighting of physician testimony allows the increased weight of subjective measures of pain and injury which treating physicians may testify to but government sponsored doctors (such as consulting examiner or medical advisor) may be unable to observe.

Meanwhile, the question of "who killed Hanna Dean?" hangs over the show: a night of subjective memory, fraught with human error and coerced eyewitness testimony, spiralling out into Paulie's community.

Critics of partial matches say they open DNA up to subjective judgments by forensic analysts and prosecutors who often overstate the value of incomplete DNA matches in court testimony.

Norko (2005) stated that the subjective element of truth telling involves the expert's honesty whereas the objective element relates to his knowledge and testimony.