Targeting preventive procedures according to individual risk-assessment has been criticized as being impractical and thus inefficient in dental public health by Burt [ 30]; he concluded that, as the risk assessment methods are imprecise, persons at risk cannot be adequately identified.
Given the reported variability in the notation of rhythmic aspects of music even among expert transcribers [41], it is assumed that onset annotation is highly dependent on the person, imprecise and difficult to generalise.
And yet they acted upon his imprecise suggestion that a person described only as 'Blackie Toy,' the proprietor of a laundry somewhere on Leavenworth Street, had sold one ounce of heroin.
This is obvious in the case of vague (imprecise) propositions like "this person is old" (beautiful, rich, etc).
Second, the interview-based assessment of falls could be imprecise, as the interrogated person could have forgotten these events (consistency bias), or did not want to report them in order to not appear frail.
His proposed solution is to accept that other people as well as oneself do experience qualia, to collect their first-person accounts, and correlate them to establish what they have in common, bearing in mind that these reports are inevitably "partial, imprecise and relative to... personal context". Insnar'd with Flow'rs, I fall on Grass.
Of the 137,112 person-years 73%% were geocoded with an acceptable precision level for this study (60%% matched at the house or street and 13%% matched at zip code centroid), while 19%% of the person-years were too imprecise (matched at the nearest 'populated place', county or state centroid), hence these residential addresses were excluded from the analyses.
Although gay people – myself included – often pride themselves on their "gaydar", their ability to "spot" another gay person, it's a very imprecise instrument and getting more so all the time.
"The recent disclosure that F.B.I. field agents were blocked from pursuing an investigation of Zacarias Moussaoui because officials in Washington did not believe there was sufficient evidence of criminal activity to support a warrant points out how one person's judgment in applying an imprecise test may result in the costly loss of critical intelligence," Mr. Cohen said.
Calibration for information bias accounted for within person variation for dietary consumption and imprecise ascertainment of self reported diabetes.
Putting it in tap water, they say, is an imprecise way of distributing fluoride; how much fluoride a person gets depends on body weight and water consumed.
