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The mainstream-media critics over at the Media Research Center have been evaluating "evaluative" statements about President Trump on the three main nightly newscasts — ABC's "World News Tonight," "CBS Evening News" and "NBC Nightly News". Over the summer — June, July and August — 91percentt of such statements have been negative, as opposed to 9percentt positive, the organization has determined.
The outcome measures used in the non-randomised designs included a mixture of standardised instruments, evaluation questionnaires, evaluative statements and narrative findings (online Tables DS3 and DS4 shows the samples and designs; Table DS5 shows the intervention components).
Statements about the value of things or state of affairs are evaluative statements: they evaluate something or a state of affairs in terms of a value.
This book paves the way in exploring the socio-political implications of evaluative statements, with a specific focus on the contribution of the concept of quality to these processes.
Descriptive and evaluative statements on social competences can therefore only be made and empirically substantiated in defined areas and situations with clear reference to values and standards, which differentiate socially adequate from socially inadequate behavior.
Thus Carnap clarified (1963b, §32) that he regarded the distinction between analytic and synthetic statements—just like the distinction between descriptive or factual and prescriptive or evaluative statements—not as descriptive of natural language practices, but as a constructive tool for logico-linguistic analysis and theory construction.
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In this regard, it is important to bear in mind that not every kind of evaluative statement would count among the merits of a given rule; its merits are only those values that could bear on its justification.
(Again, not an evaluative statement, just reporting).
One article by Ray et al 55 stated factual findings with no evaluative statement at all.
Most models of the etiology (cause or origin) of SAD have a prominent cognitive component that is primarily concerned with self-focused attention and self-evaluative statements that occur either during or immediately following social situations.
Like the original BDI, the BDI-II has 21 items, each of which consists of four self-evaluative statements in a time frame of two weeks, and scored 0 to 3, with increasing scores indicating greater depression severity.
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