Pickles is now tasked with making the final judgement on controversial applications to explore for shale gas, a fledging industry which is being fast-tracked by a deliriously enthusiastic government.
The aim of this study was to evaluate its comprehensibility and acceptability in focus groups with healthy senior volunteers and to explore whether the judgement differed depending on the educational background of the study participants.
In order to explore the different judgements in relation to participants' educational background, the sample was divided into five groups: no job training, semiskilled, apprenticeship, training college and university.
Dissatisfaction with each of the central elements of Brentano's theory of judgement has been a motive in this tradition to explore alternative routes in analyzing the relation between presentations and judgements, the polarity of positive and negative judgements, and the special role of existential judgements (see Husserl 2009, Reinach 1911, Heidegger 1913; Schuhmann 1998).
Therefore we aimed to evaluate a recently developed EBPI brochure on fall prevention with regard to seniors' acceptance and comprehensibility in focus groups and to explore whether the participants' judgements differed depending on the educational background of the study participants.
First, studies of medical choice and judgement are regularly used in the medical field to explore healthcare providers' decision behaviour or preferences.
By studying student reflections on lapses in professional judgement, recorded as 'critical incidents', it is possible to explore themes which are significant for the development of professional behaviour in an undergraduate setting.
It provides ways to explore the complexity of clinical judgements and encourages doctors to question one another's authority in a supportive culture.
It uses the history of hill reclamation in 20th century farming to explore how economic, moral and aesthetic judgements are made about land.
Although interpreting quality often felt like 'trying to pin down jelly', we aimed to explore, challenge and articulate our own judgements about what constituted quality in qualitative research.
