The phrase "assume merit" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where one is discussing the acceptance or acknowledgment of value or worthiness in a particular situation or argument.
Example: "In evaluating the proposal, we must assume merit in the arguments presented by the team."
Alternatives: "presume value" or "accept worthiness".
To give a simple illustration, consider two traits, and assume merit is positively related to each trait: the first has heritability 0.5, with a phenotype obtained by summing two numbers drawn from N 0,1), the first representing the breeding value, the second representing the environmental deviation; the second trait consists of only the second number, i.e. environmental deviation.
Whole-genome prediction (WGP) models that use single-nucleotide polymorphism marker information to predict genetic merit of animals and plants typically assume homogeneous residual variance.
Absolutely nothing -- assuming that merit can be measured.
Traub's opposition to preferential admissions for legacies and minorities assumes that "merit" can be accurately measured in college admissions.
These cannot be assumed, but merit an equal degree of attention from evaluators.
NAME WITHHELD Your bosses might with equal merit assume that your customers close for all presidential birthdays or vice-presidential birthdays or my birthday.
Naturally, there will probably be people who want to graduate from unpaid contributor to employee -- and where they can make a case on merit, and assume all of the responsibilities of employees, such "promotions" will be considered.
Catalytically closed systems such as proposed by Kauffman [ 34, 200] have other merits still; they assume the prebiotic formation of peptides, a type of event considered as probable and anterior to the emergence of any self-replicating nucleic acid by de Duve [ 198].
Saks will continue to defend its actions on the merits (assuming there isn't a settlement), but it won't pursue its argument that discrimination on the basis of transgender status is not covered under Title VII as a form of sex discrimination.
But it also proves that club music fans can't assume that their scene's artistic merits are self-evident to outsiders.
He continued: "One must assume the government is still unconvinced of the merits of a freewheeling media.
