However, starting in 2013, the city of Santa Monica began developing a means by which to gauge, both objectively and subjectively, whether its citizens really do enjoy such a famously high quality of life.
Investors delude themselves if they think standards in most Indian technology firms, let alone the rest of its 9,000 listed companies, are close to those set by Infosys.The illusion persists because it is not easy to gauge corporate governance objectively.
Unfortunately, it's difficult to gauge that pressure objectively.
By figuring out the level of "growing" or "shrinking", doctors can more objectively gauge whether a patient is exhibiting an adequate level of consciousness to recover.
It extracts thousands of data points from video interviews, assessing everything from facial expression to body language to vocabulary usage, to objectively gauge such qualities as empathy and audacity.
This sounds like brazen narcissism, but it also makes sense; can you really claim to objectively gauge how attractive you are to others?
Trait EI should not be confused with seemingly related constructs that try to objectively gauge how "Emotionally Intelligent" one is, using IQ-like tests.
Unlike studies that rely on teachers to subjectively report on the degree of increase in their own content knowledge to evaluate professional development programs (Garet et al., 2001), a pretest paired with a posttest (administered some time after the conclusion of the professional development program) can objectively gauge the efficacy of teacher institutes and workshops.
The experiment focused, with great discipline, on something that can be more objectively gauged: the extent to which drinking makes people's penmanship go wobbly.
It objectively gauges competency across 15 parameters in three areas people, process, and technology and produces a maturity score that can be compared with the scores of National Instruments' global client base.
