Questions were asked by the facilitator to prompt discussion of preferences and to question the relationship between preferred level of control and the level(s) of control that was considered to be acceptable.
Participants' answers to the Control Preferences Scale [ 34, 35] in the P3P query, measuring their preferred level of involvement in the decision, ranged: three respondents preferred a more active role, two preferred to share the decision with their doctor, and two preferred a more passive role.
Among the other 111 patients, 49 had their exact preferred level of participation, 37 had less participation than they would have preferred, and 23 had more responsibility than they would have preferred.
Mr. Draghi also warned that inflation would probably exceed the bank's preferred level of 2 percent.
Or they could use the network to determine their preferred level of involvement: nonviolent demonstrations, civil disobedience or mass arrests.
From a menu of sixty or so meats and vegetables, you choose ingredients (three to six are suggested per person) and, more important, the preferred level of spiciness.
There are also temperature probes, designed to be inserted into foods such as meat, fish, pies and bread loaves to ensure thorough cooking or a preferred level of "doneness".
This project is going to be anthropology 2.0 or anthropology light, depending on one's preferred level of sarcasm, in the sense that I won't be working at a job somewhere in the financial sector.
The news has also provoked lively debate on the blogosphere, with some suggesting that the university is doing the government's bidding both by charging its preferred level of fee and by pushing students from poorer backgrounds into vocational degrees.
Under the deal, taxes will rise for individuals who earn over $400,000 a retreat from Barack Obama's preferred level of $250,000, but still anathema to many Republicans.
Simultaneously, it provides meaningful information in easily digestible chunks that let you choose your preferred level of engagement.
