After all, the effort to classify and categorise disorders of something as complex as the human mind especially when that categorisation is done by committee is unlikely to please everybody.
She is fascinated by the intimacy and frailty of human relations, and tries not to categorise or define those experiences.
Yet if this level of emissions seems irresponsibly high – which it surely is in a carbon-constrained world trying to avert the risk of dangerous climate change – then how should we categorise 3.7bn tonnes of CO2-e, a figure more than triple that from the Keystone XL proposal?
She said the papers had been treated as "too difficult" to categorise.
Rusedski's world ranking is such that he could not even make the seedings for this Wimbledon warm-up, but it is hard to categorise his 7-6, 7-6 win over Gambill as an upset.
Since the release of his band Antony and the Johnsons' 2005 album I Am A Bird Now (which chronicled his experiences as a transgender person and was the surprise winner of the Mercury prize, selling upwards of 500,000 copies), there have been many attempts to categorise his sound, ranging from "chamber pop" to "ethereal torch singing".
Our brains are wired to instinctively categorise people based on a host of visible and obvious criteria, but also on invisible and thus less obvious labels – age, skin colour, gender, sexual orientation, job title, accent, education, professional group to name but a few.
Hart, Detwiler, and their colleagues have recommended that the IUCN Red List categorise the lesula as vulnerable.
Even then, the researchers were keen to stress that it is hard to categorise what counts as problem behaviour and almost impossible to discern whether games are the cause rather than underlying mental health issues that could have manifested in any number of ways.
The machine learned to categorise common things it saw, including human faces and (to the amusement of the internet's denizens) the cats—sleeping, jumping or skateboarding that are ubiquitous online.
The motives of state-sponsored or state-tolerated hackers are harder to categorise, ranging from a wish to cause chaos to pilfering industrial secrets.
