Virago; £22.50 A former professor of English at Princeton University blends academic respect and robust judgment with humour and a common touch to create a vibrant survey of women's writing in America, from the Pilgrim Fathers to the present.When Brute Force Fails: How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment.
He praises one of the most famous professors of the day, Adrianus Turnebus, for having combined robust judgment with massive erudition.
Whether or not the NPA was nobbled, the judges continued to hand down robust judgments based solidly on the law.
Excellent teaching requires well-honed judgments about individual students based on observation, information from a robust assessment program, and a great deal of knowledge and informed intuition about young people.
If Europe's leaders do not come up with a more robust plan, the judgment of global stock and credit markets is likely to be harsh and swift.
For the purposes of the present study, this paradigm provides a robust measure of judgment bias, determining whether individuals overestimate (i.e. are positively biased), underestimate (i.e. are negatively biased), or are accurate about their performance in an ambiguous context where no feedback is provided.
The UK supreme court has delivered a robust set of judgments this morning, demonstrating the refreshing level of independence it enjoys from both the government and from the lower courts.
Lawyer Willem de Klerk told City Press: "Robust criticism of a judgment and court processes, even the conduct of a judge, is perfectly acceptable.
Although people's judgments appear robust for the simple cases, it is likely that there might be individual differences in people's intuitive attributions for more complex cases (especially when different principles might be in tension).
The four most popular and robust scales for judging situational outcomes are shown below: 1. Ten-point judgment scale: This scale ranges from +5 (most favorable) to − 5 (most unfavorable).
DeBondt and Thaler (1995) suggested that 'Perhaps the most robust finding in the psychology of judgment is that people are overconfident.' Overconfidence is the driving force that encourages individuals to take on ventures that other individuals might not undertake.
