Because there is no perfect intervention, does that mean we don't intervene at all? Sure, making it illegal to sell obscenely-sized vats of sugar and chemicals is a logistical nightmare, fraught with problems and far from ideal.
As a congressman, he insisted on Congress's "perfect non-intervention" with slavery in the territories.
Although there are many tasks where output strings are automatically generated from a set of evidence, they are not perfect and human intervention is often required to correct the result.
Using natural language processing (NLP) technologies to convert the text format of eligibility criteria to a computer or to extract patient identifications from EMRs is far from perfect without human intervention.
In essence, MSM seeks to emulate an ideal randomized trial with perfect compliance with exposure interventions of interest and no loss to follow-up.
Whilst none of the programmes were a perfect match for our intervention goals, they did demonstrate the potential effectiveness of brief interventions for violence prevention at both cognitive and behavioural levels.
The distribution of total cost associated with the adaptive intervention simulations (Figure 7) is essentially equivalent to the distribution of costs achieved under static intervention with perfect information (Figure 5), indicating that even the short period of data collection prior to action produces parameter estimates that are sufficient for accurate prediction of the disease dynamics.
There is no perfect formula for military intervention.
At a divinely perfect time for an intervention, my college friend Jeff, who lived a supremely happy and green life in Oregon with his wife and kids, suggested I take improvisation classes at The Second City, the legendary comedy school and theater located in Chicago's Old Town neighborhood.
In such cases, a pragmatic position should be taken, whereby one tries to refine the middle range theory as much as practically possible, with the explicit aim of providing options for improvement rather than reaching a perfect understanding of the intervention as such [ 56, 79].
