Elsewhere in the building's 50 testing labs, white-coated assistants test stereos and TV's in a soundproof chamber, a machine opens and shuts kitchen cabinets thousands of times to test durability, and "sensory panelists" sample potato chips, rating them for texture and flavor.
Each student assessed a single, randomly assigned trait for all the voices, rating them, for instance, as more or less dominant on a scale of one to nine.
We've found the best new kettles on the market and rated them for everyday use.
They had to smell the pads and rate them for "intensity", "sexiness" and "masculinity".
In addition, the Uber app enables customers to rate them for politeness, safe driving and so forth.
Although my original plan was to rate the quality of paste tomatoes for their usual purpose -- cooking -- I decided also to rate them for fresh eating.
But just as revealing was the next part of Mr. Rove's conversation, when he was asked whether he paid attention to fact-checking organizations, those groups that analyze the ads, speeches and statements and rate them for their quotient of truth-telling.
Its founder, an engineer (and self-confessed serial dater) called Eric Holzle is drawing on an observation made over a decade ago by Claus Wedekind, a researcher at the University of Bern, in Switzerland.In his original study Dr Wedekind recruited female volunteers to sniff men's three-day-old T-shirts and rate them for attractiveness.
The team, from Loughborough University, say it can scan up to 2,000 tweets a second and rate them for expressions of one of eight human emotions.
Vivino, a mobile wine app that allows users to keep track of wines they drink, rate them for future reference, and share their favorites with others, has raised $1 million in Series A financing from Creandum, the Nordic venture capital firm known for its early investments in Spotify, iZettle, and Wrapp.
Two independent neuroradiologists with extensive experience (FB and RG), blind to clinical information, examined all sequences at inclusion and rated them for both medial temporal lobe atrophy on the 3D T1 sequence using the Scheltens scale [23] and white matter changes on the T2-weighted images using the Fazekas and Schmidt (F&S) scale [24].
