In foreign-policy circles, people sometimes talk about "boiling the frog": when an enormously consequential outcome is achieved slowly, through tiny steps rather than one giant leap.
There is indeed a design, but it is concealed because it is the consequential outcome of a series of intangible philosophical principles (or just biases) that are passively and unconsciously applied.
This turn of events may well be the most consequential outcome of 2016.
Permutation #1: Mitt Romney Wins Both States This is probably the most consequential outcome.
Mitt Romney 538 forecast (most likely outcome): 22 percent High end of forecast range: 32 percent Low end of forecast range: 12 percent By far the most consequential outcome in Iowa would be if Mr. Romney performed much worse than expectations.
One reason regards the decision process itself (e.g., whether it was justifiable and wise and carefully chosen), and the other concerns the consequential outcome of that decision.
However, our focus here, like most of the focus in the prior academic literature, is on the far more consequential outcome, suspect IDs (and the corresponding measures, namely, the HR and the FAR).
Does that show that we must move beyond a pure individualistic perspective to one in which consequential outcomes are part of the measure of justice?
Africa has lagged behind the rest of the developing world in terms of three consequential outcomes: economic development, the establishment of social order through effective governance, and the consolidation of democracy.
Moreover, these perceptions can have highly consequential outcomes, such as affecting the jobs that individuals are offered [4] their outcomes in court [5], and their financial success [6] [8].
The current data indicate that very subtle differences signaling group membership permit the accurate discrimination of nonobvious social groups, suggesting that the perceptual system makes use of subtle cues to support higher-order cognitive and behaviorally consequential outcomes, such as accurately judging another's category membership.
