But it's impossible to view this film as a seasonal treat: it is too gloom-ridden, too gothic, too goddamned humourless to rate anywhere on a scale marked "fun".
Premise 1 says that there is something to put in the scale marked "Hypothesis of Indifference".
The size of each tagged whale shark was estimated to the nearest half-meter by positioning the research boat parallel and as close as possible to each shark and then measuring against a metric scale marked on the side of the boat.
In turn, the last rate on the scale, marked as "10," means "extremely strong" effort.
A simple long-arm goniometer (Orthopedic Equipment Co., Bourbon, USA) with a 360° scale marked in one degree increments was used.
The measurement tool was the classical two-arm goniometer with a scale marked in 2-degree-increments (figure 1).
However, on a smaller spatial scale, marked inaccuracies became apparent, with only about 50% of outlets being allocated correctly within 100 m.
Patients were asked to rate how much they liked each graph on a 5 cm Likert scale marked 1 to 5 (1 = not at all, 5 = extremely).
ii) Pain assessed using a 10 cm visual analogue scale, marked "no pain" at one end and "worst pain imaginable" at the other.
Mean (SD) preference rating for the LE line graph, on a 5 cm Likert scale marked 1 to 5 (1 = not at all, 5 = extremely), was 3.3 (1.1).
