Clinical trial findings are the cornerstone of medical evidence to judge the effectiveness of interventions, but not all recommendations effectively translate into clinical practice.
It also makes it impossible to gauge an effect size, let alone to decisively judge the effectiveness of tight glycaemic control.
In December, the Obama administration put into effect a sensible evaluation system that will allow federal officials to judge the effectiveness of individual Head Start centers and to shut down chronic low performers.
Finally, to judge the effectiveness of tying pay to performance requires that we distinguish between the motivational effects of higher pay per se, versus higher pay which is conditional on performance.
Unable to accompany ground troops, they cannot independently judge the effectiveness of the actions.
It is not easy to judge the effectiveness of LL12, at least at this early stage.
But wildlife experts and the UK government said on Monday it was too early to judge the effectiveness of the accord.
There would be a direct and transparent funding arrangement between voters and elected commissioners so that the public can judge the effectiveness of the policing they pay for".
It's obviously not the only measure by which to judge the effectiveness of a government, and it's worth considering in context with economic, health and other national figures.
But the most important thing that people look at when they judge the effectiveness of government is the state of the macro economy.
Taken together, however, they amount to an assault on reliable data that's necessary to judge the effectiveness of existing government programs and the need for new ones.
