His 100-point scale, while admirable in its effort to weigh contradictory evidence, seems relatively arbitrary.
Any number one picks from the air will be relatively arbitrary but a point per game is a little less arbitrary than anything else.
The playlist below is relatively arbitrary, songs that that seem – sometimes retroactively – to provide foreground, or perhaps background to the work, along with songs that somehow magically touch some aspect of the thing I created.
However, one headteacher, who asked not to be named, said: "The policy allows headteachers to find a way to survive during austerity by making relatively arbitrary decisions about pay progression so that schools remain solvent".
Stake's intention is to demonstrate just how subjective rankings are, to show how determinations of "quality" turn on relatively arbitrary judgments about how much different variables should be weighted.
Malcolm Gladwell points out that the relatively arbitrary weights assigned to factors like average class size and alumni donations have a large impact on the final U.S. News & World Report ranking of colleges and universities ("The Order of Things," February 14th & 21st).
Jeremiah Ostriker Professor of Astrophysical Sciences Princeton University Princeton, N.J. Malcolm Gladwell points out that the relatively arbitrary weights assigned to factors like average class size and alumni donations have a large impact on the final U.S. News & World Report ranking of colleges and universities ("The Order of Things," February 14th & 21st).
And because they're so few, these relatively arbitrary 20 nonetheless appear to be of a far higher quality than hundreds of friends could ever be — and more real, by far, than the hundreds and even thousands of friends many now have on Facebook, that other social network.
(Remember that many simulations discretize continuous equations, so they have a relatively arbitrary finite "grid size").
What you can end up with instead is herding towards a relatively arbitrary position.
As the stress difference decreases, induced fractures branch off in relatively arbitrary directions.
