Buffer didn't initially analyze the data by gender, but a recent analysis found that, despite a fairly objective formula, women at the company still earned less. "We really thought our salary formula was bias-proof," says Courtney Seiter, who oversees inclusivity at Buffer.
Any payments made by a charity, assuming that it qualifies under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, to victims of these attacks are free of tax under the new law, provided that they are "distributed in good faith using a reasonable and objective formula which is consistently applied," said Jeffrey L. Wechsler, a lawyer and certified public accountant in Manhattan.
"The way you divvy up the money is to come up, to the extent you can, with an objective allocation formula," Feinberg told me.
Still, the vice presidential question is not all that friendly to statistical analysis — there is no objective formula to determine whether Senator Rob Portman of Ohio would be a better choice for Mr. Romney than, say, Susana Martinez, the governor of New Mexico.
So there would not appear to be any overall "objective" formula used by the search engine in question.
No, we tell people, "Oh, that film is so bad!" as if there's some objective formula that determines badness.
In response, lawyers representing the claimants said BP had "undervalued the settlement and underestimated the number of people and businesses that qualify under the objective formulas that BP agreed to".
Therefore, the objective formulas for community MIES are based on the annual investment cost, annual cost of energy purchased from public utilities, and annual energy dumped because these are direct and indirect measures of residential benefits.
