"higher criteria" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to describe a set of standards or requirements that are more advanced or demanding than the average or usual expectations. Example: The company has implemented higher criteria for their employee selection process, resulting in a more qualified and capable workforce.
First of all, we limited the number of insertion attempts to two and set somewhat higher criteria for a successful insertion, i.e. absence of any air leak at sufficient tidal volumes in addition to simply being able to ventilate.
All studies on radiographic knee OA only (i.e. without reported pain) either used the K-L grade 2 [ 39, 40] or higher criteria for OA [ 27, 28, 31- 34].
The scores derived from the vignettes reliably reflected actual levels of physician practice, resulting in higher criterion validity compared to scores derived from chart abstractions.
So if the expected stimuli were subject to intensity, as well as sensitivity, attenuation one might expect higher criterion for expected stimuli.
However, the only effect on criterion that we found followed the opposite pattern, i.e. it was for unexpected, not expected stimuli that we found a higher criterion (in combination with increased d׳).
For the higher criterion of greater than or equal to 102 cm, the proportion correctly identified was 85.7%; for the lower criterion of greater than or equal to 94 cm, the proportion correctly identified was 88.5%.
The criterion for positivity in the NIH and Vienna studies were based on a NIH laboratory reference range [ 51, 59]; whereas a higher criterion was used in the Mayo study, based on a 95% reference range derived by Mayo Medical Laboratories [ 18].
But do such choices establish impossibly high criteria ?
"I define smart as action that aligns to your highest criteria and core values," she says.
"She said: 'You have been wasting your time for a month and a half for your high criteria and your haggling — you might as well waste another hour.' She was smiling in the most condescending way.
And if you still feel you're not matching up, the final question to ask is: "Would I judge my best friend by these standards?" We're often very keen to employ unrealistically high criteria to ourselves in a way we would never do to anyone else.
