In short, a simple decision tree can give you a somewhat objective lay of the land and help you really think through your options – as you would for any management problem.
"This approach allows a somewhat objective look at something hopelessly subjective sense of self," says John Gabrieli, a neuroscientist at MIT. Regardless of the deeper meaning of their findings, Montague and his team ultimately hope to develop the brain-imaging results into a diagnostic test.
Housing may seem like a commodity that has a somewhat objective value; for example, a buyer could rely on a yardstick like the asking price per square foot of an apartment, and compare it with the sale price per square foot of similar properties in the same neighborhood.
Having grown up in the area, returning after decades away has given me a somewhat objective perspective on how much it has grown and changed.
The picture builds a genuine tension right from the start, showing a somewhat objective eye towards both Skarsgård and company's genuinely displeasing behavior and Marsden's often clueless reactions.
McCarthy writes that headlines were determined using Techmeme's internal data, which allows it to generate what is at least a somewhat-objective list of the year's most widely read (and written about) stories.
"There is a universal desire for a classification system that is somewhat objective, but unfortunately, it is really a very subjective process," said David Goldstein, an executive vice president at the brokerage firm Studley.
Trial Lawyers Care, which offers free legal advice to Sept. 11 families, already has about two dozen cases in which it is representing opposing factions to "inject a pool of neutral, somewhat objective minds in the process," said William L. Mauk, the group's director of litigation support.
It's hard to say, because it's somewhat objective; a basic rule of thumb is if "there is ongoing verbal abuse, physical abuse, swearing, screaming -- children are harmed in those situations and are much better off when the parents divorce," explains Joshua Coleman, PhD, author of The Marriage Makeover: Finding Happiness in Imperfect Harmony.
The new sort of national champion, or Euro champion, would have a somewhat different objective, says Mr Schweitzer: to ensure that Europe, or a given European country, has firms able to hold their own in competitive global markets, particularly against America's mighty multinationals.
First, we highlight that while each of these indicators claims to be original and having a somewhat different objective from others, each of them systematically uses the whole, or parts of, the World Bank EWI a series of indicators developed by the World Bank and measuring some specific aspects of labour regulations.
