If the Supreme Court bans affirmative action throughout America (as it could, in effect, if it rules broadly against Michigan), even the best private universities that receive public funds, like Harvard and Yale, will feel similar pressure to de-emphasize objective predictors of academic performance, like grades and test scores, in favor of softer proxies for racial diversity.
"And you think you're getting objective information by meeting with members of the opposition?" a young investigator named Yuri asks, emphasizing "objective".
But the pitching process was a valuable reminder of the power of emphasizing objective performance and knowing my stuff.
The positivist paradigm remains dominant in much scientific research, emphasizing objective knowledge that is separate from the knower and that can be uncovered only through a scientific method of inquiry that is neutral and free of bias.
Protestants emphasize the objective sufficiency of Scripture as a source of revelation, but many Protestants today are careful to add that Scripture must always be read in the light of church tradition in order that its true message be rightly understood.
Instead of linearly proportional, a quadratically proportional function is adopted for phase 2 to emphasize the objective of keeping the most important video packets in AC[2] as many as possible.
These results emphasize that objective mental status assessment is more sensitive than subjective report and suggest that future studies should assess potential mental status deficits to clarify the long-term public health consequences of WNV.
Results from studies on GPs throughout the world suggest that it is necessary to limit the role of pharmaceutical companies in physician training and to emphasize more objective sources of information [ 16- 21].
Existentialism, however, also emphasizes the objective side of the link; that is, the world itself as object of perception and knowledge, and as the context in which human action takes place.
Others attempt to remedy or compensate for the subjectivity, by providing objectively motivated means of determining the prior probability or by emphasizing the objective character of the Bayesian formalism itself.
