At best, Afghan war planning was open-ended and at worst it at least tacitly articulated the assumption that this first bout -- hitting a "target-poor" country and "primitive," turbaned enemy -- would be quickly dispatched.
Although assuming an effect size of 30% is high for many complex traits as previously articulated, an assumption on which our study was predicated is that RAM is primarily a consequence of major gene susceptibility and because of the restricted ethnicity allelic heterogeneity is limited.
Observing once taken-for-granted categories that are now contested reveals how struggles for the value of jobs long-settled in many locales—actually unfold as workers articulate assumptions about inequality, ethics, and values (Goodman 2014; Swidler 1986; Zavoretti 2016).
The assumption articulated by Nick Herbert seems to be that a well informed public will consult their local crime map and hold local police "to account" for crime.
It was like pulling teeth with many people, whether or not it was articulated, because the assumption is that is there is a "guilty by association" philosophy with female athletes.
Companies, by contrast, typically try to reduce it by picking one solution that is known to work and sticking with it.In a Big Science project, teams with rival proposals spar publicly, forcing all the boffins to articulate their assumptions, justify their choices and learn enough about their rivals' ideas to criticise them at length.
The discussion structure pushes students to articulate their assumptions and evidence.
They will articulate the assumptions that drive these various financial models and will make a case for the likelihood of the various outcomes.
Case questions come in all flavors: "How much does a Boeing 747 weigh?" "Why do the hands of a clock turn clockwise?" "How can a company that is losing money turn things around?" Interviewees are expected to work toward an answer by asking follow-up questions, articulating their assumptions, and reasoning their way to an answer.
Before heading down this road and devising alternative statistical approaches, it is worth first clearly articulating the assumptions of a framework in which a single variable plays such a special role.
To give their initial programme theory this added depth and specificity the team will need to articulate the assumptions that underlie the selection of the intervention's components and theory of change, then seek to assess those assumptions against relevant theories at higher levels of abstraction.
