The methodological flaws Heathers found in "The Joy of Cooking Too Much" are of a different sort: because the recipes in question are fixed information, the actual data — ingredients, quantities, nutritional information — aren't subject to manipulation.
Knowledge and practice questions were fixed answer (multiple choice or true/false) and if the answer to one question (Is nuchal cord harmful to the infant?) was yes, they were asked to explain why.
Questions were fixed choice – yes, no and not applicable response categories.
Limitations related to questionnaires include that the questions are fixed and thus may not capture the children's own experiences of their disease.
Where, as here, the artistic contribution is fixed, the key question remains whether it's sufficiently creative to be protectible.
Seeing as – in all likelihood – the price of carbon is not going to rise to the point where the climate problem is fixed, the pertinent question is whether the actual price of flying is going to get closer or further away from where the planet would want it to be.
Heather Powers Sauter, PTSA president at Silver Spring International Middle School, said she was glad to hear about the strong exam passing rate for students who were retaught, but still has questions about whether the algebra problem is fixed.
They were thereby authorized to do any and all kinds of commission business, and bucame liable to pay the privilege tax in question, which was fixed in part and in part graduated according to the amount of capital invested in the business, or, if no capital were invested, by the amount of commissions received.
Even before the meeting began, Mr. Giuliani's aides were attacking it, asserting that the crowd and questions had been fixed to spare Mrs. Clinton from any difficult moments, pointing to an article in The Buffalo News that suggested the event had been carefully controlled.
Quantitative self report studies have been very useful but may fail to discover some important reasons for drug use in schizophrenia because the questions posed are fixed in advance of any data collection.
