Sentence examples for normative methods of from inspiring English sources

She describes their remixing of popular culture sources as an "explicitly creative process", maintaining that it prompts the reader to adopt some of the group's views by forcing "the individual to reconsider normative methods of approaching the content".

In any case, we expect that, to some degree, such research has to meet the basic standards of both empirical and normative methods.

Normative methods tend to classify persons, while treating unique variation of individuals, rather unflatteringly, as unexplained error.

There were very much lower levels of prosthodontic treatment needs and workforce requirements when using the sociodental approach compared to normative methods.

Verhoeven et al [ 10] in a study that assessed the credibility of the Angoff method (by comparing it with a normative method) used mean minus 1 SD as the cut-off.

An advantage of this method is that there is less heterogeneity among groups of jobs compared with the three groups according to the normative method.

Using the sociodental approach resulted in much lower estimates of dental need and workforce requirements for prosthodontic treatment than using the normative method.

Some commentators on the "empirical turn in bioethics" have regarded the interest in empirical research as representing a loss of confidence in the typical normative and analytic methods of bioethics [ 15].

Although there is no population-based data on the prevalence of families and schools using timeout, it seems that in many areas, timeout is the normative replacement for harsh methods of discipline.

This belief that EB guidelines are superior to other types of guideline is based on our normative views of methods for guidelines development [ 4] and not on empirical comparison of practice recommendations using different methods for development of guidelines.

An important issue when developing checklists is the distinction between the positive aspect of reporting (e.g. did they apply discounting?) and normative aspects of methods (e.g. did they discount by a rate of 5% per annum in real terms?).