We need, also, to question what counts as morally arbitrary criteria in the equality of opportunity view.
"In order to stay true to this spirit, rather than applying arbitrary criteria, each child's unique vulnerabilities should be taken into account.
The result is that millions are now trained to be dismissive based on detailed and sometimes arbitrary criteria.
Elevating arbitrary criteria such as skin colour above objective, performance-based measures should be roundly condemned.There are better solutions.
In desperation, the government of Dilma Rousseff, Lula's successor, artificially controlled the price of oil to combat inflation, caused by weak fiscal policy and the extraordinary costs of subsidised loans to entrepreneurs selected by arbitrary criteria.
Ms. Hemming has spoken to human-resources managers who have been so overwhelmed by applications received online that they have resorted to arbitrary criteria to help them weed through the clutter.
Visual scoring is based on arbitrary criteria that produce a crude single category score (eg stage 4) for each epoch of sleep, which obscures the complexity of the sleep electroencephalogram (EEG).
Nevertheless, the design and analysis of these trials are founded on a number of assumptions and arbitrary criteria that are generally not well understood or justifiable.
This approach not only is characterized by a weighting matrix that drives the deconvolution process, but can also be easily adapted to arbitrary criteria.
Accuracy limits based on arbitrary criteria are proposed, yielding minimum resolutions of 7.7, 5.2 and 4.0 points per wavelength for N= 8, 16 and 32 respectively.
Gaining privileges by such arbitrary criteria as one's birthplace is discredited in virtually all fields of public life, yet birthright entitlements still dominate our laws when it comes to allotting membership in a state.
