Sentence examples for evaluative decision from inspiring English sources

Faith cannot therefore be "a conclusion a person may come to after pondering certain facts about the world," and instead is "an evaluative decision that one makes, and, like all evaluations, it does not result from any information one has acquired, but is a commitment to which one binds himself".

Jewish faith, therefore, rather than consisting of propositional beliefs concerning God upon which foundation halakhic observance is based, is instead founded upon the evaluative decision to commit to that very system of observance.

They have maintained that although QuesTec (like Zone Evaluation) collects data in three dimensions, a hitter's position in the batter's box or distractions like bat movement can cloud the information, making it unfit for evaluative decisions about umpires.

Many related reviews and other publications remain open about the types of physical parameters used by pigeons to determine their current position relative to their home site, merely mentioning a number of debated possibilities and arguments without reaching evaluative decisions.

Both these topics may be taught through clinical scenarios which require the participants to make a number of evaluative decisions and judgments en route to selecting a final answer [ 8].

If Hume is right, every valid argument for an evaluative conclusion either includes or presupposes some evaluative premise.

Such approaches push the focus away from capacity testing and substituted decision-making, towards an evaluative approach to decision-making abilities, in which a person's support requirements for decision-making are determined and then met [ 20].

Most of the evaluative work on decision aids has looked at consultation outcomes and found that they can improve patients' knowledge about a condition and reduce decision conflict about treatment; although they have had a variable impact on the actual decisions made and on satisfaction with treatment [ 14].

In the context of performance surveys, Messick (1995, p. 5) notes that validity is in fact a social value that has "meaning and force whenever evaluative judgments and decisions are made".

A second example is a range of tasks used to measure emotional or evaluative aspects of decision-making, often linked to ventromedial prefrontal cortex.

We compared the influence of emotion-laden roadside advertisements (positive, negative, and neutral solutions) either on the evaluation of possible risk (i.e., evaluative behavior) or the decision to stop/speed up (i.e., urgent behavior).