Sentence examples for qualitative judgments from inspiring English sources

"But it's always difficult to know how to make sense of these qualitative judgments, and they aren't controlled in the same way that an experiment is controlled".

The UN MDG progress chart in their yearly reports deals with qualitative judgments and is very useful for a quick assessment of this complex issue.

While directors, institutional investors and the news media evaluate chief executives' performance solely on the basis of financial results, chief executives are likely to include qualitative judgments when recommending pay adjustments for those who report directly to them.

Matters of style and form were left to art historians, who could make erudite, but qualitative, judgments about whether a painting was really good enough to be, say, a Leonardo.

Officials from the Ministry of Finance have chimed in as well, accusing Moody's and the other big agencies Standard & Poor's and Fitch of making unfair qualitative judgments and focusing too little on comparable figures.The agencies point out that, even at four or five notches below top grade, their ratings still imply a very low risk of default.

Frederick Warren-Boulton of MiCRA, a consultancy, and a former chief economist in the antitrust division, says that America's watchdogs have moved beyond the Hirschman-Herfindahl index and qualitative judgments about entry conditions to try to assess directly the effect of mergers on prices.

While I'm passionate about male fragrance, I have excluded perfumes on the basis that they are too personal to make a qualitative judgment (but Chanel Pour Monsieur, Dior Eau Sauvage and Thierry Mugler Cologne, if you're asking).

(William Drew, the group editor of the World's 50 Best, said that the regions are redrawn every year, according to such factors as culinary history, population size, G.D.P., and standard of living, but he admitted that "ultimately it's a qualitative judgment").

It sells itself as qualitative judgment and always arrives wreathed in a lot of specious guff about how "the music on the album is the only thing that matters", but if the Mercury prize has any real purpose for existing, it should probably be to alert a wider audience to a great album they haven't heard, but might conceivably like.

"We're not ready to make the qualitative judgment that the cumulative effects of what we are doing are enough to change their calculus yet," the White House official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly.

Tests like Dr Mebane's one could provide monitors with quantitative estimates of exactly how free and fair an election has been, on which to base their qualitative judgment of whether that is indeed acceptable.As Jasjeet Sekhon of the University of California, Berkeley, points out, the emerging field of election forensics presents opportunities as well as risks.