Sentence examples for retrospective judgment from inspiring English sources

Never mind that this strategy defies the judgment of most academic studies of voting behavior: that voters largely decide on incumbents based on a retrospective judgment of the economic situation during the last year or so in office.

Kierkegaard's writings taken as a whole, whether pseudonymous or not, focus overwhelmingly on the religious stage, giving credence to his own retrospective judgment that the entire corpus is ultimately about the religious life.

That is a retrospective judgment from a perspective in which immaterial substances are automatically deemed "unnatural".

It is here that aesthetic judgment joins with the retrospective judgment of the historian.

The Difficulty Rating Scale asks learners to make a retrospective judgment concerning every example or problem with regard to difficulty.

It is not even entirely clear whether John thought of her as such, and if he did, whether this was true from the start or a retrospective judgment that he came to hold years later.[5] The entry for On Liberty in Mill's bibliography, though, makes no mention of Taylor Mill (MacMinn et al. 1945, 92).

"To America" is more than usually replete with retrospective judgments and the search for moral heroes and villains, and the reader often senses an appeal by Ambrose himself to be judged kindly.

This has led authors like Brown [2] to conclude that too little is known about the differences between the two paradigms to provide a definitive verdict about any commonality between the processes underlying prospective and retrospective judgments.

For example, a meta-analysis of this topic by Block and Zakay [3] reported only 16 pertinent references discussing a total of 20 valid experiments comparing prospective and retrospective judgments directly.

However the absence of a comprehensive work up in all cases hampers retrospective judgments about causality.

However, as discussed later in this article, the notion of prospective responsibility emerges as an important factor in people's intuitive attributions, even when they are making purely retrospective judgments.