Mistakenly understood in that normative way, constructive empiricism would imply that belief in a theory's empirical adequacy is the only rational candidate for the belief involved in a theory's acceptance.
In this way, the ensemble of districts can be used in a normative way to identify outliers.
Of course, "religion" is a term used in nonnormative, or at least not so explicitly normative, ways, too (in attempting "substantive" and/or "functional" differentiations of religious from nonreligious phenomena, and in advancing critical explanations or deconstructions of the differences, for example).
I would ask the question in a normative way.
1) The overall conclusion of the authors is that the subjective estimates of hazard rate are biased, but this quantity is used in a normative way.
We argue that the corollary is not disproven by this approach, that is, practice may be improved by a particular intervention despite the null hypothesis, but the evidence isn't strong enough in a normative way.
There are only a few, relatively minor, comments: 1) The overall conclusion of the authors is that the subjective estimates of hazard rate are biased, but this quantity is used in a normative way.
In these discussions, the teacher and student were able to 'bend' formal statements of Newton's three laws in terms of the representations in the game to warrant their intuitive thinking in non-normative ways, such as interpreting forces applied against the direction of motion in terms of the wording Newton's third law.
After all, both of these misunderstandings result from people trying to graft their normative conceptions of love and relationships onto people who are partnering in non-normative ways.
An ethos of controversies is a normative way of thinking in which controversies are the main focus in decision-making and politics.
