This may argue for the desirability of display customisation, so that a display can be tuned to match the visual capacities of individual drivers.
This is what stars are, or were: shorthand for the desirability of a given show on a given night at the theatre.
The debate has never been quite resolved, for the desirability of being a Luddite is a matter of personal taste.
In this study, the maximum level for As III) removal was set for desirability at a minimum level of contact time (5 min), minimum adsorbent dosage (0.05 g), the maximum level of initial As III) concentration (100 µg L−1), the level of solution pH in the range of 6 8 and the level of temperature within a range of 20 40 °C (data not shown for the desirability ramp).
They insisted on the necessity of continued isolation of leprosy patients, argued for the desirability of the government subsidy for Promin, and recommended the expansion of leprosaria.
To reduce the potential for this kind of desirability response in the case control study, participants were told that the CAPRISA 004 trial counselors and nurses would not have access to the case control study files and the interviewers would not have access to the CAPRISA 004 trial files.
Given this content for desirability beliefs, Smith poses the question: would S be more coherent, were she to believe that her fully rational counterpart would desire her to A and desire to A, or were she to have have the same belief without the desire (Smith 1994)?
Use of self-administered questionnaires prevented interviewer-related bias, but there may still have been potential for social desirability bias introduced by this methodology.
This study could not control for social desirability, therefore subjects could have been biased towards endorsing false responses as veridical in order to give a better image of themselves.
In addition, we attempted to control for social desirability response sets and did this in several ways.
