Steven Levitt, the chief executive of Marketing Evaluations, said that Mr. Foreman's scores suggest that "he is not the most lovable personality.
"We have also been calling for a long time for media owners like Facebook and Google not to mark their own homework and release data to comScore to enable independent evaluation," Martin Sorrell, chief executive officer of WPP, told Bloomberg.
Dr. Cummings and Mike Clark, the academy's president and chief executive, also recommend a thorough, functional evaluation of the body's strengths and weaknesses, followed by a custom exercise program.
Aston Martin's chief executive, Andrew Palmer, said: "Through a detailed evaluation of over 20 potential global locations for this new manufacturing facility, we were consistently impressed with the focus on quality, cost and speed from the Welsh government team.
Kevin Roberts, president and chief executive of Glendale Adventist Medical Center, agreed that any evaluation of his hospital's safety performance is appreciated, but he was also concerned about how far back the report went.
"There's a lot of players getting into the mix, but it's a young industry and there's not a lot of clearinghouses or evaluations," said Don Knezek, chief executive of the International Society for Technology in Education, a nonprofit organization.
But such private sessions are the only suitable place, governance experts say, for independent directors to discuss such sensitive matters as evaluations of the chief executive, takeover valuations and special accounting audits.
The percent of governing boards that conducted annual evaluations of the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) ranged from 0% in the smaller regions (Benishangul-Gumuz, Gambella, Dire Dawa and Harari) to 100% in the capital city of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa.
Penny Young, chief executive of NatCen Social Research, said: "Our independent evaluation brings to life the impact National Citizen Service has on young people.
John Samuel, the foundation's chief executive, said the foundation, like many, had conducted evaluations of its programs.
That appeal was turned down by a three-man evaluation committee including British Cycling's chief executive, Ian Drake.
