Analyses of A1c treated as binary assumes intent-to-treat and that all dropout and missing data are considered as failures.
Assuming intent without hearing the full story can send you off course.
To 69, you have to assume intent – one does not simply fall, head-first, into a 69.
In our interactions with others, we also employ a kind of listening-heuristic - we assume intent or motivation, we formulate our responses and we respond with our own perspective, all in the time it takes someone else to speak.
Building a system that assumes ill intent rather than merely detecting discrepancies is not always a good design choice.
This stream of research also assumes managerial intent, i.e., that managers make at least partially deliberate choices before reconfiguring their resource base under a new organizational structure in the wake of an acquisition.
The MCM model assumes an intent-to-treat approach that attributes all estimated direct medical costs to the initial therapy.
Second is, assume positive intent.
The canons, the authors say, are "background principles of assumed legislative intent".
One reason many humans will assume malevolent intent is that it's what we know.
Before that, we assume the intent is art, accustomed as we are to seeing abstract images in museums that way, which was certainly not how Talbot thought about the photograph.
