Consequently, it is not surprising that many news articles concerning health research also receive unsatisfactory ratings when evaluated using similar criteria (Schwitzer 2008).
Non-experts' and experts' ratings were similar when evaluating the realism of the ultrasound image generated during the performance and the force feedback provided onto the operator's hand (statements 4 and 5).
Prior research has shown that managers tend to compress ratings when subjectively evaluating employees and that such compression can have negative organizational consequences.
Finally, respective mean ratings given by athletes when evaluating the vividness of MI were 4.67 (0.98) during dynamic imagery and 3.58 (1.24) during motionless imagery.
This is an important question since both parent and teacher ratings are typically used when evaluating children with ADHD, and persistence of symptoms across different situations (e.g. home and school) are an important part of clinical diagnostic criteria.
However, when we dug through our data, looking at the ratings our consultants had given candidates when evaluating them on fit for a CEO job and performance on 30 management competencies (for example, holding people accountable and the ability to motivate a team), we found an interesting connection.
Although patient "satisfaction" ratings are often used as outcome measures when evaluating medical care from the patients' perspective, they have limitations.
When evaluating the impact of sCS on different psychometric ratings of the intensity of chemosensory perceptions or chemosensory-mediated health symptoms, only the latter were slightly increased in the sCS group (van Thriel et al. 2005).
The considerable uncertainties regarding the reliability and validity of student ratings compiled in this review once again highlight the importance of using multiple sources of evidence when evaluating undergraduate medical curricula [ 2].
When evaluating effects of the perceived environment, it is important that measurement properties and the reliability of the environmental ratings are evaluated before decisions about how these ratings should be handled in the statistical analyses are made.
