But the creditors argued that the company was not exercising a valid business judgement, but was participating in legal gamesmanship.
Nevertheless, a drawback of the MedCIRCLE button is a possible misunderstanding by end-users, who might confuse it with a quality seal and therefore may forget to actively press the MedCIRCLE button, which may hinder their valid judgement.
Healthcare professionals often believe that their evaluation of rehabilitation potential is based on "scientifically valid judgements as to what constitutes need, what treatment modalities are most likely to be effective, and which cases deserve priority" (Mechanic 1989).
Some experts may be better at making valid judgements than others.
Limited parent-child agreement does not necessarily reflect lack of valid judgements by one informant, but can be due to the report of uniquely different information [ 10].
Difficulties emerge regarding how to make valid judgements about the value of life to different individuals (or sectors of the population) without unfairly discriminating, or using assumptions that may be flawed - such as the young will actually live longer (and so benefit more) than those who are elderly [ 40].
It is well recognised that clinical practice as such requires competence in a range of attributes; therefore no single method of assessment is likely to provide enough data to make a valid and reliable judgement of this integrated competence [ 16].
This study's findings suggest that a single face-to-face appraiser is unlikely to be able to make a valid or reliable judgement about fitness for revalidation, but that anonymous measurement of insightful practice offers an alternative platform from which a robust system of revalidation could be developed and implemented.
In retrospect, therefore, the judgement call that this study used a valid behavioural outcome measure appears to have been erroneous, and the study should not have been included.
In terms of pharmacological validation, studies using the judgement bias task are limited, and it is not yet clear whether this approach provides a valid method to predict antidepressant or prodepressant pharmacology.
