Sentence examples for overt preferences from inspiring English sources
John McGinnis, a law professor at Northwestern University, who generally opposes race-conscious admissions programs, said that the approach the court endorsed was a triumph for proponents of affirmative action, given the political unpopularity of overt preferences.
Prior work has documented overt preferences for helping over hindering agents, measured by both looking times and preferential reaching (Hamlin et al., 2007, 2010) at the same age.
The findings revealed complex negotiations between family and patients about moving into a nursing home (often dictated by need rather than preference); the use of the patient's personal historical identity and previous wishes to guide decision-making in the absence of overt preferences; and difficulties for the family in balancing the patient and their own wishes.
A few noted that staff injuries were an "in-house" problem and expressed an overt preference for preventing illness in patients over staff.
From our knowledge of the treating surgeons in our unit, we believe that the surgeons expressed no overt treatment preference, nonetheless, the participating patients made it clear that the surgeons' views had profound effects on their decision-making.
This study investigated student preference for overt vs. covert responding in a web-based tutorial using a within-subject design.
A negative relationship was found between the degree of preference for overt questions and the percent of overt questions answered correctly, and between the total time taken to complete the program and the percent of overt questions answered correctly.
Jim Brown, the seemingly least sensitive of the group, surprises with his preference of overt versus covert racism.
This might be advantageous in terms of external validity; however, the data are not easily applicable at the individual level owing to both covert and overt (e.g. preference) variability within this cohort.
