Sentence examples for desirability rather than from inspiring English sources

As the researchers put it, "longer acquaintance lengths tend to feature romantic impressions that rely heavily on unique, idiosyncratic desirability," rather than just looks.

The proposed rule "appears to be more about desirability rather than reliability or feasibility," he said, "with little regard for rising consumer prices, the effects on jobs, and the impact on the reliability of our electric grid".

The first was that we used a self-reported survey to measure compliance with guideline recommendations as it is possible that physicians answered questions in ways that reflected professional desirability rather than their own practices.

Self-reported responses can be subject to social desirability bias with the respondents choosing the responses which they regard as desirable rather than reporting their actual practices [ 97].

Further, it is possible that social desirability moderated – rather than mediated – the effect between pre-test and post-test.

Categories 1 and 2 are collapsed (as their distinction may reflect social desirability bias rather than different experiences) to be scored as Active involvement, category 3 is Shared involvement, and categories 4 and 5 are collapsed to Passive involvement.

Another potential limitation is that self-report measures of personal stigma may underestimate the level of an individual's personal stigma and that the disparity in GASS personal and perceived stigma is a reflection of social desirability bias rather than two stigma factors.

"Whilst BMWs and Audis appeared to be the early targets, it's fair to say that this was largely associated with their desirability across Europe, rather than any specific security lapse.

Indeed, public support was identified as a crucial factor for the future of CCS, and several research recommendations were explicitly presented as aiming to provide evidence to sway public opinion and persuade publics of the desirability of CCS, rather than to address technological knowledge gaps.

Although the desirability of characterizing fundamental rather than realized climate space was outlined in the Introduction, a method for doing so is not clear [52].

Television writers are free to plumb the realities, rather than the desirability, of gender equality and women's liberation.