It was a measure how comfortable this afternoon was turning out as Carroll added the gloss with 10 minutes remaining with a fine drive from 25 yards out.
In my years studying such reviews, I've learned that they are subjective evaluations that measure how "comfortable" a boss is with an employee, not how much an employee contributes to overall results.
There's a line in Stendhal's biography of Rossini about his response to an opera being determined in large measure by how comfortable his seat is, and, while I think I'm experienced at filtering the incidental out of the experience, it's good to double-check.
A final question serves as a quality control measure, asking how comfortable the patient felt being recorded to determine if the presence of the recorder in the conversation may have influenced the dynamic.
One trial measured the paramedics' perception of how comfortable they felt when administering each method to each patient (Reades 2011).
To provide a central measure of clinical acceptability the survey asked " How comfortable were you completing that questionnaire?
Ability to use computers was assessed with the following item: How comfortable do you feel using computers, in general?" measured on a 6 point scale from "very comfortable" (6), "somewhat comfortable" (5), "neither comfortable nor uncomfortable" (4), "somewhat uncomfortable" (3), "very uncomfortable" (2) and "I have never used a computer" (1).
The questions measure the culture of error reporting in a hospital and indicate how comfortable the respondent is in sharing errors at the workplace with supervisors and coworkers.
When asked how comfortable they would be to recommend withdrawal of life-support measures, 82% reported being uncomfortable/very uncomfortable, 9% had no opinion and 9% were comfortable/very comfortable.
Since these surveys assessed students' perceptions of how well they knew a topic or how comfortable they were with a skill, they were an indirect measure of student learning.
