The instrument must be sensitive enough to measure mild-moderate COPD [ 5], but also reliable [ 6, 7], valid for evaluative studies, and useful for determining rehabilitation routines.
Note that Hare is not simply saying that a person's actions are the most reliable source of evidence as to his evaluative judgments, or that if a person did b the most likely hypothesis is that he judged b to be the best thing to do.
HPA axis function was evaluated by the TSST, which includes items assessing the essential features of a reliable stressor being both uncontrollable and social-evaluative [ 20, 21].
With this point in mind, Brady's central thesis is that on the reliabilist account knowledge is more valuable than true belief because certain active positive evaluative attitudes are fitting only with regard to the former (i.e., reliable true belief).
"Individuals need evaluative information about others to evaluate themselves".
The TSST combines cognitive tasks with social evaluative threat, which has been reported to elicit the most reliable stress response (Dickerson and Kemeny 2004).
Significant responsiveness was also demonstrated for the domains of daytime problems and emotional distress.Conclusions: The OSA-18 is a valid, reliable, and responsive QOL measure that combines the advantages of a discriminative and evaluative survey in a single instrument.
In particular, I test whether inequality is more acceptable when the multidimensionality of merit is bracketed, or when multiple evaluative devices in a field are in agreement, suggesting the existence of a reliable merit order.
Although this study found positive relations between self-reported pubertal development and the responses of the HPA axis to a social-evaluative situation, stronger results may be obtained using physician ratings of pubertal development, as these are more reliable.
"But it's an evaluative process.
