Raters then practiced using case example photos, where all visible attributes from both the Krause and AAH NAS forms were listed in a practice response book for independent rating.
When people are confronted with an intangible abstract technology, the only visible attribute is the name.
In our lower courts, we see a PACER system that is absurdly expensive and so technically flawed despite a huge recent investment of time and money in code whose most visible attribute is the obvious insularity of the programmers who wrote it that the mere mention of the word "PACER" to a technical audience has become a laugh line.
But Obama's most visible attribute, the only one mentioned in that Times lead, is unique, even revolutionary: the color of his skin.
"Understanding Visualization" begins with a set of visual definitional sequences for a set of categories that relate to the visible attributes of objects.18 The purpose of the categories is to provide users with a way of parsing visual information, so that they can then intelligently search a database of visual information.
(For a detailed account of Spear and Bowen's theory, see "Decoding the DNA of the Toyota Production System," HBR September October 1999). Using this mechanism, organizations as diverse as hospitals, aluminum smelters, and semiconductor fabricators have begun achieving improvements on a scale similar to Toyota's, even though their processes often share few visible attributes with Toyota's system.
In the early stages of theory building, people typically identify the most visible attributes of the phenomenon in question that appear to be correlated with a particular outcome and use those attributes as the basis for categorization.
The rapid expansion of high-spatial resolution optical sensors and imagery over the last decade presents exceptional opportunities for quantifying visible attributes of geomorphic systems.
When these researchers categorized the world in terms of the most obvious visible attributes of the phenomenon (wings versus no wings, feathers versus no feathers, for example), the best they could do was a statement of correlation that the possession of those attributes is associated with the ability to fly.
