It is no longer a positive attribute to seek out truth, determine biases, evaluate facts, or share knowledge.
He and others know that most people don't sit around and evaluate facts and policies since they have neither the time nor the preparation.
It is likely that higher socio-economic individuals may be better able to evaluate facts or evidence, whereas those from lower socio-economic groups may be more prone to use emotions to guide their decision-making.
Recently, a Dutch expert group embedded in the Centre for Certification ACT & FACT evaluated working ingredients and formulated fidelity criteria to evaluate FACT rather than ACT.
John DiIulio, who was brought into the White House to implement Mr Bush's "faith-based initiative", was told to retract his criticism that the administration lacked a proper policy shop for evaluating facts and arguments impartially.
Bear Stearns, CSFB, Goldman, Lehman, Merrill, Piper Jaffray, Citigroup and UBS are also accused of issuing research reports not based on principles of fair dealing, and which did not provide a sound basis for evaluating facts and which contained exaggerated claims.
The book contends that from law school on through their careers, lawyers are so imbued with the concepts of serving a client in an adversarial arena ("zealous advocacy," in legal parlance) and unemotionally evaluating facts and rules ("thinking like a lawyer," as the phrase goes) that they fail to answer to any overarching sense of right and wrong.
Only one study evaluating FACT-F as primary end point in patients receiving chemotherapy was placebo controlled, and so we cannot gauge the extent to which the effect observed for primary vs secondary end point was confounded by lack of blinding.
It means complainants are unable to evaluate the facts that determine findings, inhibiting complainants' ability to contest these facts and take further informed actions, such as filing civil suits.
I trust them [the judges]; I think they are intelligent people who evaluate the facts.
Constitutional change, he explained, "comes about because judges evaluate significant facts differently," or they "discover some relevance to a constitutional rule where earlier judges saw none".
