Negotiating the tension between "rational" policy choices and "irrational" preferences and anxieties — between the desirability of more productivity and the desire to preserve a way of life — is what democratic politics is all about.
However, when discussing social desirability bias more in depth with the workers, most of them felt that on the whole the women interviewed gave more honest answers with them than they would have done with a stranger.
"Calpers and other large purchasers warn that the requirement itself would cast doubt on the safety and desirability of more cost-effective alternatives to biologics".
The first of our serious arguments (none of which did permanent damage to our friendship) began about the proportion of national income that should be devoted to public expenditure, and ended with a passionate disagreement about the desirability of "more equality" as distinct from "less inequality".
Thirdly, Reporting bias due to desirability is more likely to affect the assessment of trend data.
This high percentage suggests that improvement may be feasible by further training of the audit teams in using the Tulip classification in addition to the desirability of more autopsies and placenta biopsies.
The U.S. physicians were interviewed (computer-assisted) and they may be subject to so-called "social desirability bias" more than the others that were surveyed by mailed questionnaires [ 35].
Furthermore, social desirability comes more into play when one has to state his/her preferences in front of an observer, but not to such an extent when facing an anonymously and personally-responded questionnaire.
Zelda has essentially become an archetype, but Amy Rutberg here makes her new again, drenching the character in desirability early, getting more wild-eyed as the 1920s give way to the Depression.
Moreover, it was also found that participants with higher desirability levels were more honest at the follow-up conditions.
This suggests the desirability of a more explicit 'insurance' policy – where either buyer or seller (or both) buys a policy on a transaction that pays nothing if the transaction is satisfactory (eBay profits) but pays a specific schedule (possibly capped) of amounts for each problem or fault in the transaction.
