At the beginning of each month, Thin Reads presents its monthly ranking of the seven buzziest, coolest, most talked about, most topical and just plain most interesting e-book single topics based on a totally arbitrary assessment of titles available on digital newsstands.
An advantage of this model is that it allows peer reviewers to concentrate on what is most important — assessing whether the science is technically sound and the conclusions are fully supported by the data; they do not have to make a more arbitrary assessment of the perceived importance of the findings.
Because judicial decisions are subject to the sometimes arbitrary assessments of the CCP, citizens who attempt to make use of the legal system to pursue grievances find that, if their cause is determined to have the potential to undermine the authority of the Communist Party, they may be suppressed.
Even so, the scores given by students who did their clerkship in the same practice did not vary greatly, so that the identification of poor practices does not seem to be the result of an arbitrary or random assessment.
With vast numbers of disabled people yet to be assessed, the entire benefit needs an overhaul: from abandoning a "points-based" assessment – an arbitrary method of testing that discourages a realistic understanding of disability – to a commonsense attitude to the much vilified "lifetime awards" (taxpayers' money doesn't need to be spent checking someone is still blind).
There is also sometimes an arbitrary approach to the assessment of which situations best favour programme or project support on the part of some external agencies.
The slides were examined microscopically for morphological changes such as congestion, hemorrhage, edema, and erosions using an arbitrary scale for the assessment of severity of these changes [ 19, 35, 37].
Myotonia was quantified using an arbitrary four-point self-assessment scale (from 0 = no myotonia to 3 = severe myotonia) in five different body parts (eyes, tongue, jaw muscles, hands and lower limbs).This four-point score was given by the patients for each body part listed, but only the max score was used to quantify myotonia, irrespective of which body part it referred to.
But the number gives military strategists fits because it's based on an arbitrary economic benchmark, not an assessment of global threats.
This measure of "risk" is an arbitrary one and intended for rapid assessment of sexual history in a clinical setting.
